• Furthermore, much like the head of the absent-minded, the keyboard is infrequently lost because it is attached.

    ENGADGET: Switched On: Time to write off pen computing

  • You might call him absent-minded if you did not know that he has also been a sharp-eyed investment banker and an egregiously numerate shadow Treasury spokesman.

    ECONOMIST: Oliver Letwin's big new idea about crime

  • It may be a cynical question, but would Ferdinand have been quite so absent-minded if his appointment was for a fashion shoot or a lucrative newspaper interview?

    BBC: SPORT | Football | United they lose

  • She did not appear to cry, as she did during the viewing of chilling crime-scene footage on Tuesday, but she blinked, looked down and exhibited small, absent-minded jaw movements.

    CNN: Andrea Yates case: Expert says children suffered 'slow death'

  • It has been overtaken by Einstein's absent-minded professor image.

    BBC: FBI campaign against Einstein revealed

  • This almost absent-minded gorging had serious mental consequences.

    ECONOMIST: Jazz giants

  • He seemed bemused by his transformation from loner to the man everyone wanted to speak to, and perhaps as a defence, he was absent-minded: he had only one lecture a year to give at Oxford, but sometimes he forgot to turn up.

    ECONOMIST: Bill Hamilton

  • Pippin is the young son of Charlemagne, and heir to the throne, but that's not enough for him: He's desperate to find a meaningful role in life (his own "Corner of the Sky, " to quote his opening song.) On Broadway, John Rubinstein (son of pianist Arthur) imbued the role with a sweet, almost absent-minded innocence.

    NPR: 'Pippin' Is Back, And Surrounded By Broadway Buzz

  • At first, people kept phoning, to make sure that Nita was not too depressed, not too lonely, not eating too little or drinking too much. (She had been such a diligent wine drinker that many forgot that she was now forbidden to drink at all.) She held them off, without sounding nobly grief-stricken or unnaturally cheerful or absent-minded or confused.

    NEWYORKER: Free Radicals

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