Sentence examples for Imperfect recollection from inspiring English sources

Truthful witnesses can be word-perfect and self-assured; they can also be inconsistent, shaking with nerves, giggling inappropriately, or suffer from imperfect recollection.

"Would it not be possible for you to enter the public prints, sir, recounting the story from your point of view and emending Mr Mandelson's imperfect recollection of the order of events?"A rush of emotion filled me.

"From my imperfect recollection, once he referred it off, I do not believe he had a second conversation about it," Scott Paterno said of his father and how he handled any follow-up on the allegation.

This was a step Heywood subsequently regretted; he had not consulted his lawyers, and his narrative contained statements that Heywood later rescinded on the grounds that they were "the errors of an imperfect recollection".

However, the low rates of homicide recidivism in the unpublished data might also be a due to under-reporting, for example, as a result of the imperfect recollection of homicide recidivism by the primary researchers.

The book refers to photographs and letters, but it is primarily built upon Bailey's own imperfect recollections.

He photographed each of the drawings and exhibited the photographs for the multilayered things they were: documents of imperfect recollections of documents of a collective reality, which look at first glance like the real, original thing but are marked by all kinds of subtle and not-so-subtle mistakes and revisions.

Our greatest literature was generated by an imperfect collective recollection, as much as it was written by one person.

Problems have been numerous: people's recollection was imperfect, if they listened to a station briefly they could forget it, and they might overstate listening to stations that they felt reflected better taste.

She said her recollection was imperfect, but she thinks it was then she signed the contract.

Give Trump the benefit of the doubt, if you want, and allow for the fact that human recollection is imperfect.