His eyes met hers with their usual expression of absentminded serenity. "At Love's Cost" by Charles Garvice

If Joe were out very late at night, Amy would almost invariably grow uneasy and absentminded, and there would be a challenging note in the way she greeted him on his return. "His Second Wife" by Ernest Poole

Without precisely coming within the province of medicine, the comic individual, as we have shown, is in some way absentminded, and the transition from absent- mindedness to crankiness is continuous. "Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic" by Henri Bergson