What is "simple absence"

Usage examples of "simple absence".

It is my duty to make sure that you understand that any failure on your part to make that movement, by failing to report when and where your orders specify, is a more serious offense than simple absence without leave, can be construed as intention to desert or desertion, and that the penalties provided are greater.

Men murder their wives from hatred or rage or despair, or to keep them from talking since not even bribery not even simple absence can bridle a woman's tongue.

He had news which offered the satisfaction of making him much-needed again, but he would have traded that pleasure ten hundred times over for the simple absence of that one creature from this valley.

Both men have fair Nordic hair, but again there is a difference, Heinz's being thick and flowing and a burnished glowing gold in color, whereas the year-captain's is stiff and fine and almost silver, not from aging but from simple absence of pigment.

It was not the simple absence of day, patrolled by the moon and stars, but an extension of something that had existed long before there was any light to define it by absence.

And then they set foot on Night's Bridge and Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light.

To be sure, it had not been replaced by a frown, but after such a dazzling and palpable presence, its simple absence was something terrifying.

For an indefinite leisurely time I basked in the simple absence of the shattering pain that had accompanied Sparky's treacherous assault.

The ghastly silence in the quarry was replaced by a more familiar, comfortable silence, the mere and simple absence of noise.

Ever since his accident he had become accustomed to a kind of dormancy, settling for the most part for a simple absence of pain, but now he began to perceive that somewhere-maybe a long way down the road yet, but someday certainly and inevitably-he would actually be happy again.