Sentence examples similar to a pale memory of from inspiring English sources

And it goes to the heart of one of Proust's main themes: that we are held prisoner by preconceptions, by habit and by the normal machinery of memory, which provides only a pale, distorted record of experiences.

Ishiguro's first novel, A Pale View of Hills (1982), details the postwar memories of Etsuko, a Japanese woman trying to deal with the suicide of her daughter Keiko.

The novel's narrator and contemporary focus -- an orthodontist named Alexander -- may seem at first a pale attenuation of his Cape Breton kin, but he lives in a tumult of memory and longing that eventually becomes the reader's own.

His nephew was a pale shadow of him.

"But it's a pale copy of 1968.

It was a pale shade of yellow, and slightly frothy.

Audiobooks are not a pale imitation of "real" books.

That made him turn a pale shade of green.

Its there, a pale imitation of life insurance.

Is adult love a pale replica of our first romance?

"Kim Jong Un is a pale reflection of his father and grandfather.