In fact, there seemed a curious absence of boats nearby.

The author noted the curious absence of a spleen in this case.

Several theories have been advanced to explain this curious absence.

But the surface bustle concealed a curious absence of actual buying and selling.

I could feel the eyes of the crowd focusing on me and there was a curious absence of apprehension on my part.

"She really had a strategy there," said Sabatini, whose curious absence from the winner's circle has now stretched to 33 events.

Maybe it's best this way, this curious absence of mainstream religious life in mass media.

Instead he watched the pair with a curious absence of expression, and spoke scarcely a word.

One wishes, though, that the many excellent maps were joined by photographs - which are a curious absence in such a book.

When matters are finally resolved between them, there is a curious and, for a romantic comedy, fatal absence of tenderness.