Sentences with phrase «virtual absence»

Baobab contains as many as 18 minerals including calcium, magnesium, potassium and zinc — and a «virtual absence of heavy metals.»

Intended to redress what cocurator Lynn Zelevansky calls Korea's «virtual absence from the Western imagination,» the show is accompanied by a catalogue with essays by Zelevansky, cocurator Christine Starkman, and art historian Joan Kee, as well as interviews with the artists and an informative time line of Korean art and politics from 1945 to the present.

For the most part, the virtual absence of a middle man — as well as greed by bigger companies for higher profits — is what allows for prices to be so much lower than the official competition's.

I say «virtual absence» because it can be argued that nature has been present in economic thinking under the rubric of land.

Equally important is the violence worked on the nonhuman world because of the virtual absence of nature from economic thinking.

This is the virtual absence of any serious discussion about the nature of the British state, whether it can survive for long, and why that matters.

The virtual absence of such pictures of life at present is not a small matter.

Despite its virtual absence of melodrama, the entire two hours go by quickly, engaging our interest and showing that our country is still moving slowly and with quite a few unfortunate interruptions to the left.

The virtual absence of any police hasn't stopped Lazarus and Ramage from indulging in the reliable cop cliché where an officer is taken off the case by a superior (in this instance, Father Andrew by Cardinal Daniel Houseman, played by Jonathan Pryce).

This feature also points up a big shortcoming in this otherwise characteristically strong package from New Line: the virtual absence of any thoughts from the actors, whose presence is reduced to the Singh - praising soundbites in this featurette and the film itself.

The Internet, as everyone knows, is like the Wild West in terms of the virtual absence of law and order in the form of regulatory controls.

The exhibition surveys the representation of the Devil from the 16th through the 20th century, tracing his evolution from the bestial enemy of mankind and Christ in the earlier period, to his perception by the Romantics as a sort of noble rebel against patriarchal authority, to an insinuating dandy, to his virtual absence in the 20th century (in all but advertising and entertainment) as people increasingly recognised that we create our own hell on earth.

The virtual absence of white in Mr. Whitney's work creates a great visual heat and internal pressure — an alloverness that reflects his careful study of Pollock — but, of course, it also has symbolic overtones.

Most notable is the virtual absence of cooling in the tree - ring reconstructions during what ice core and other evidence suggest is the most explosive volcanic eruption of the past millennium — the AD 1258 eruption.

I am not dissatisfied with my current automobile insurance company, but I am searching for a lower rate based on: my excellent driving record, the virtual absence of traffic density in my community, and the yearly mileage accrued,