How To Use Forgetfulness In A Sentence
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Blindly, unwittingly, erringly as Dickens often urged them, these ideals mark the whole tendency of his fiction, and they are what endear him to the heart, and will keep him dear to it long after many a cunninger artificer in letters has passed into forgetfulness.
Literature and Life (Complete)
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The author suggests that in a fruitful search for truth we must experience a self-forgetfulness that is not self-annihilation, but a form of pleasure.
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Forgetfulness and Famine and tearful Sorrows, Fightings also,
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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My friend Phil Proctor just sent along a poem that I much enjoyed, ‘Forgetfulness,’ by Billy Collins - and I rarely enjoy unrhymed poems.
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With all her forgetfulness of God, God still remembers her; showing that her redemption is altogether of grace.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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How long will humanity continue to suffer in their forgetfulness?
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Ordinary forgetfulness that emerges after a trauma must not be confused with amnesia for the trauma.
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He knew, as he sat with clenched hands and staring eyes, that chiefly he was longing for a woman -- a woman whose eyes and lips and sunny hair haunted him after months of forgetfulness, and whose face smiled at him luringly, now, from out the leaping flashes of fire -- tempting him, calling him over a thousand miles of space.
Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest mounted Police
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She had learned the hard way a long time ago that forgetfulness was considered negligence.
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Snoopiness, gossip, toying with the occult, reluctance to do what is good, forgetfulness of God's will, factionalism, and many other failings are as much manifestations of concupiscence as disordered sexual impulses.
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Forgetfulness breeds ingratitude; ingratitude breeds faction; and faction leads to civil war.
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This forgetfulness comes daily in a blanket of fog.
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I'msorry I didn't answer your letter - I can only plead forgetfulness.
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Love and a spirit of self-forgetfulness took complete possession of my heart, and thenceforward I was perfectly happy.
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Remembrance is a form of meeting, forgetfulness is a form of freedom.
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This kind of forgetfulness is one of the common signs evident in the earliest stages of the disease.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Alzheimer's Disease Risks, Signs and Prevention
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His confusion at the discovery of his own forgetfulness secretly delighted her; she could have cried with pleasure when he penitently wondered what he could possibly have been thinking of.
No Name
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And, notwithstanding Santayana's too-often repeated mot about forgetfulness and history repeating, it is sometimes possible to see in such repetition not error or futility but constancy.
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An orgy in cans and bottles, a bacchanalian revel: a cupboard full of indigestion, joy, forgetfulness and katzenjammer.
Where there's a Will
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Frequent training can result in monotonous workouts, running late all the time and forgetfulness - telltale signs you're overloaded.
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There was not the usual forgetfulness that comes with moving house; no chair forgotten, no scraps of paper overlooked, no pins or knick-knacks left abandoned behind a chest of drawers.
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The early warnings signs of toxicity include forgetfulness, fatigue and headaches.
The Family Nutrition Workbook
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But this was not a case of forgetfulness or a breach of promise; it was another misunderstanding.
Times, Sunday Times
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And passive-aggressive lateness or forgetfulness certainly falls under this category.
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I shall pardon, only telling him that One who knows what is secret will not overlook the ravaging of His Church by a man of such a character; a man who originally appoints uncanonically, then imposes oaths in violation of the Gospel, then tells a man to perjure himself in the matter of his transfer, and last of all lies in pretended forgetfulness.
NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
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Another issue is that older people can be susceptible to attentional lapses, whereby a simple lack of attention during key moments can lead to forgetfulness.
Can memory improve with age?
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Shenyang East New - Indication: sedation, sedative, for nervous exhaustion, insomnia, forgetfulness, dizziness, blurred vision, susceptible to fatigue, malnutrition, poor health.
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The theater becomes a site of self-forgetfulness for audiences who experience a reprieve from disciplines associated with memory.
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His own work and those of his pupils and masters singly occupy his mind; he is the bondslave, the zealot of his school; he dreams of an advance in art like what there is in science; he thinks of past things as radically dead; he thinks a form can be outlived: a strange immersion in his own history; a strange forgetfulness of the history of the race!
Memories and Portraits
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She had learned the hard way a long time ago that forgetfulness was considered negligence.
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And writing is the enemy of forgetfulness, of thoughtlessness.
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Any failure in memory, except the normal lapses which we call forgetfulness, is included under this term.
The Story of the Mind
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Forgetfulness tends to increase with age, but there's a big difference between normal absent-mindedness and the type of memory loss associated with Alzheimer's disease.
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But the Evangelists should be clear of every kind of falseness, not only that of lying, but also that of forgetfulness.
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
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“American Exceptionalism” means purposeful forgetfulness is ok. duBois Says:
Matthew Yglesias » The Embrace
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The Constitution does not mandate lenience, forgiveness or forgetfulness.
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his forgetfulness increased as he grew older
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Only that slow over - growing of life, which we call forgetfulness, could do that.
The Window-Gazer
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Many of us were concerned about his increasing forgetfulness, but he had been unreceptive to gentle suggestions about downsizing or getting help.
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The dialogue around Marina's forgetfulness is extremely well done, and the Hermitage material has depth.
The Madonnas of Leningrad: Summary and book reviews of The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean.
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He was slightly irritated by her forgetfulness.
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Others think that this proverb admonisheth the guests to forget everything that is spoken or done in company; and agreeably to this, the ancients used to consecrate forgetfulness with a ferula to Bacchus, thereby intimating that we should either not remember any irregularity committed in mirth and company, or apply a gentle and childish correction to the faults.
Symposiacs
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For then we shall see things as they are, the evil circumstances and the crooked intentions, the adherent unhandsomeness and the direct crimes; for all things are laid up safely, and tho we draw a curtain of cobweb over them, and a few fig-leaves before our shame, yet God shall draw away the curtain, and forgetfulness shall be no more, because, with a taper in the hand of God, all the corners of our nastiness shall be discovered.
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02 Hooker to South
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But this was not a case of forgetfulness or a breach of promise; it was another misunderstanding.
Times, Sunday Times
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That moment of forgetfulness nearly cost her her life when Elaka lunged across the room and wrapped the cord around her neck.
Antimatter
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Mild cognitive impairment was formerly classified with benign memory loss of old age, or simply regarded as forgetfulness.
Times, Sunday Times
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In neat testimony to the process, in academic publishing, history has been collapsing into memory, memory into trauma, and trauma into studies of silence and forgetfulness.
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The court considered a belief may be honestly held whether it stems from intoxication, stupidity, forgetfulness or inattention.
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To come alive again, one needs a special grace, self - forgetfulness or a homeland.
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But to Marina Buriakov, the reward for her forgetfulness is the opportunity to revisit, room by room and painting by painting ...
The Madonnas of Leningrad: Summary and book reviews of The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean.
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Although the truth of his extravagant feelings is proved by his death, and though when he digs up a treasure he spurns the wealth which seems to tempt him, we yet see distinctly enough that the vanity of wishing to be singular, in both the parts that he plays, had some share in his liberal self-forgetfulness, as well as in his anchoritical seclusion.
Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
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Remembrance is a form of meeting, forgetfulness is a form of freedom.
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She shook her purse in her hand until the coins jingled, as if she alluded merely to this example of her forgetfulness.
Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf
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But if what we remember we hold it in memory, yet, unless we did remember forgetfulness, we could never at the hearing of the name recognise the thing thereby signified, then forgetfulness is retained by memory.
The Confessions
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There was not the usual forgetfulness that comes with moving house; no chair forgotten, no scraps of paper overlooked, no pins or knick-knacks left abandoned behind a chest of drawers.
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This forgetfulness comes daily in a blanket of fog.
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There was never much money, perhaps just enough, the few pounds that Father sent us; but it was her own muddlehead that Mother was fighting, her panic and innocence, forgetfulness, waste, and the creeping tide of debt.
Cider With Rosie
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With it, Aristotle's notion of place as a container gives way to dispersion, loss and forgetfulness.
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But the effect of her forgetfulness was that her successor, Stephen Lander, took the heat of some searing criticism for decisions for which he had no responsibility.
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Psychologists call it transcendence, which has a suitably sacerdotal ring; and comprises traits of self-forgetfulness, connectedness to the natural world and mysticism.
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Any evidence of such forgetfulness, or that anyone has "misreported" his or her own votes?
Obama won by MILLIONS MORE than we've been told
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This opening cluster of poems in the book advocates ‘not knowing’ as an elegiac mode of creative forgetfulness and of clear-sighted, forwardlooking memory.
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The only blessing I hope from time is _forgetfulness_ -- my only prayer to heaven is -- _rest, rest, rest_.
The Diary of an Ennuyée
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The traditions of the citizens were abolished, the immaculate webs of tradition obscured by the dust of centuries, the dust of forgetfulness.
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People do need to learn more about when forgetfulness might signify something more.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is no objective way of explaining this drama except to say that it was a huge moment of forgetfulness, a mental lapse.
Times, Sunday Times
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Belief in a thousand hells and heavens will not lift the apathetic out of apathy or hold back the passionate from passion; while a newly planted and ungalled community, in blessed forgetfulness of rewards or punishments, of cosmic needs or celestial sanctions, will know how to live cheerily and virtuously for life's own sake, putting to shame those thin vaticinations.
The Life of Reason
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These wines were stupefactive, because they produce forgetfulness.
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The early warnings signs of toxicity include forgetfulness, fatigue and headaches.
The Family Nutrition Workbook
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How long will humanity continue to suffer in their forgetfulness?
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In a poll of 1,168 adults, some of the reasons given for not locking-up were: a belief neighbours were keeping an eye out – 18 percent, a belief the area had a low crime rate – 18 percent and just plain forgetfulness – 10 percent.
2 Million Brits Leave Their Homes Unlocked | Impact Lab
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The boundless opportunities of this heaven of legal concepts were open to all properly qualified jurists, provided only they drank the Lethean draught which induced forgetfulness of terrestrial human affairs.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Obama Elaborates on “Empathy,” What He Wants in a Supreme Court Nominee:
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These ideas and resolutions, dejecting, yet solacing, occupied her to the forgetfulness of her intended visit, and even of Eugenia, till the words: 'Pray let me come to you, my dear Camilla!' made her let down the blinds.
Camilla
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At the climacteric, various symptoms such as forgetfulness, hot flush, depressive neurosis, abnormal sensation, and sleeplessness are often observed, due to hypofunction of the ovaries.
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This was a time to drink the mind into oblivious forgetfulness, and to hell with the world.
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To use Plato's own expression there will be here no paraleipomena, + no "negligences," no feminine forgetfulness of one's self, nothing in the work of art unconformed to the leading intention of the artist, who will but increase his power by reserve.
Plato and Platonism
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§ Content of the messages o The goal of awareness should be very clear from the outset and there should be a distinction between what is a public health approach and what accounts for individual strategy (care giving is a individual strategy while generic awareness of the disease is a public health strategy). o Differentiation between normal aging and age associated memory impairment (AAMI) and benign senescent forgetfulness (BSF) of normal aging process. o Clarification of the 3 words that are used inter-changeably - aging, dementia and Alzheimer's Disease o Lack of permanent cure (warn people against high expectations from various drugs and others substances such as ginkgo biloba) and importance of care for the patient and support for the caregiver o Right information on ethical dilemmas such as tube feeding and palliative care in the terminal stage o Right information on the experiments conducted on curcumin o The demographic impact of Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias in developing countries such as India o Clear signs of Alzheimer's Disease such as forgetting names, loss of interest in hobbies, unable to manage money, unable to do simple housekeeping tasks or cooking should be highlighted in the awareness campaigns so that people can identify Alzheimer's Disease in the elderly
National Dementia Strategy Consultative Meeting of Experts ���Western India���
