The phrase "a failure to remember" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's inability to recall information or events.
Example: "The report highlighted a failure to remember key details from the meeting, which affected the project's progress."
Alternatives: "an inability to recall" or "a lapse in memory."
Hubris was seen as a human failure to remember the gods, but "titanism" is a form of hubris that happens when humans deny common decency and basic mortality and strive to be seen as gods.
"I [can't] help feeling some resentment towards the failure to reach an agreement, the failure to remember where we came from, the failure to be as brothers, as we once were.
His prayers at Auschwitz last year were a welcome gesture - despite his failure to remember exactly when he quit the armed forces of the Third Reich.
So we learned of Miliband shutting himself in a hotel room, mortified by his failure to remember the bit about the deficit in his speech to last autumn's Labour party conference.
If Mr. Everson often presents the failure to remember the past as a problem, he also suggests that the failure to understand history when you're living in the middle of it can be an even greater one.
He showed up to read a Top 10 list of "Rick Perry Excuses" for his failure to remember, in the midst of the Republican debate Wednesday night, the third federal agency he would like to shut down as president.
Her failure to comprehend this — and NBC's failure to push back — is the tragic and logical outgrowth of our collective failure to remember that the point of a free press is to help enlighten us so we may govern ourselves effectively.
– failure to remember who said "journeying is hard" and the image of the glimmering moon and "the brown channel".
Yet in spite of our guilty feelings, it's not so clear that failure to remember in such cases involves real moral culpability.
It was also about the failure to remember: the crowds that did not come, the medal that arrived after 50 long years, the government benefits that never did.
