Most ablative absolutes are best translated with clauses introduced by when, although, since, or if. |
If there's one thing last fall's election debacle taught us, it's that people like to deal in absolutes. |
And the evidence presented is woefully inadequate to prove anything, notwithstanding the absolutes of science. |
Of course, as the book progresses, you do encounter ablative absolutes and subjunctives and such. |
It's about a lawyer circa 70BC, familiar to Latin students more for his ablative absolutes than his crowd-pulling charisma. |
Good and evil are to be defined as absolutes on religious authority, admitting of neither critical judgement nor reduction. |