Sentence examples for a forgetfulness of from inspiring English sources

In his 1882 lecture "What is a Nation?", Ernest Renan argued that the question was a "daily plebiscite" for citizens; that every nation is held together by a "forgetfulness" of the brutality out of which it was born.

[A] drug which takes away grief and passion and brings a forgetfulness of all ills.

What builds character are actions on behalf of other people, a loss of self through a forgetfulness of self.

We need to recognize this growing darkness which is a forgetfulness of the sacred within our own souls and within all of creation.

Strong words and a strong code of conduct, an antidote perhaps to a world pervaded by its own strong (and expletive!) words and conduct that manifest so often only a forgetfulness of even the most basic standards of civility.

"Now what I see is a certain forgetfulness of what happened in the crisis".

Apes, she surmised, may share a human forgetfulness of things past.

The lengths of the interviews were moderate and, even though the participants mostly spoke about their experiences of case managers, they expressed a forgetfulness regarding parts of their experiences.

Given over to the rise and fall of the boat, he was lulled into a forgetfulness, the heave of the ocean working its way into his bones, softening them.

According to Kook's philosophy of repentance, man's separation from God is not an objective fact but a consequence of human "forgetfulness" of a higher existence.

After spending the week glued to my Facebook and Twitter feeds, stunned by the murders of Alton Sterling, Philandro Castile, and the five police officers shot in Dallas, I drifted into a ritual-induced forgetfulness of how the world around me was on fire.