Sentence examples for a lapse into from inspiring English sources

It will be a lapse into barbarism to let the second go.

Even a half-second response delay suggests a lapse into sleepiness, known as a microsleep.

Occasionally, there is the slightest trace of an accent (vaguely French) and a lapse into the present tense.

Nor did it mean, he said, a lapse into intolerance or violence, though he candidly called any such fear "historically well grounded".

American officials say they cannot afford to let this former insurgent bastion become a microcosm of the broader struggle in Iraq -- a rapid military victory followed by a lapse into violence.

If the poem of nationhood is a proud, ceremonious epic like "The Lusiads," which ends with a prophecy of Portugal's abiding glory, the writers who come later are bound to describe a lapse into mean, mediocre mock epic.

When you watch a Test lapse into a coma like the match at the Adelaide Oval yesterday, however, you can contemplate the wisdom the sentiment contained.

But Cohen rejects this possibility as a lapse back into pre-critical speculation (Cohen 1902, 13ff).

Murray, in a rare lapse into managers' speak, had said: "We need to make this a fortress".

His inaugural address, delivered in his usual from-the-mount cadences, stood out for a singular lapse into gracelessness.

I needn't have worried, that was an uncharacteristic lapse into saucy postcard innuendo.