Word: absents
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...However, such discussion of philosophy and qualifications has been notably and disturbingly absent from the public discourse on Souter’s replacement. Instead, the discussion has been largely confined to identity politics...
Indeed, it is in dissecting this Pope's ideas - often now cloaked in more diplomatic language that was absent in Regensburg - that we can see that he is still preoccupied with the contemporary interplay (or lack thereof) of faith and reason, and the risk of rising inter-religious conflict. Speaking after a visit inside the al-Hussein Ben-Talal mosque, the Pope acknowledged that "tensions and divisions between the followers of different religious traditions, sadly, cannot be denied." But Benedict said that Muslims and Christians have a shared obligation to counter the contemporary idea that "religion is necessarily a cause...
...Country for Old Men” comes immediately to mind—move the action to Texas, ramp up the violence; nothing more complicated than that. But other than the aforementioned passage, and a frankness about various bodily functions, Johnson’s stylistic fingerprints are conspicuously absent from the novel.But “Nobody Move” doesn’t work as a parody either. Johnson never mocks or inflates the stock traits of noir or pulp any more than they would ordinarily mock and inflate themselves. If anything, the one implicit joke is on the author; there...
...mariachi bands and their tunes of past glories were deafeningly silent; the dances of women in handmade red dresses nowhere to be found; the reenactments by men dressed as tunic-clad soldiers notably absent. For the first time in 147 years since a small band of Mexican forces defeated the French imperial army, Mexico cancelled popular fiestas of Cinco de Mayo to avoid revelers spreading the deadly swine...
...Notably absent from the NCNA's membership are Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, (her former running mate, McCain, is a member), former Speaker Newt Gingrich, GOP chairman Michael Steele and potential 2012 presidential candidates Governors Mark Sanford of South Carolina and Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota. Gingrich already leads his own such group, as does the Republican National Committee and former RNC chairman Ed Gillespie...