Sentence examples for act of memories from inspiring English sources

All the usual funeral arrangements were duly made, my twin brother Michael and I wrote and delivered a double act of memories of her at the service, and thus, as it has to be, my mother began to slip from the now into family history.

That the whole novel is her act of memory?

The book is itself an act of memory.

That reflexive act of memory also colours the great political schisms of our times.

It wasn't a stunt: it was a representation of the act of memory.

The genius of "Follies" is its ability to capture the very act of memory and its distortions in music.

Arshile Gorky's portrait of his mother, in the Whitney Museum, is a harrowing act of memory and witness.

If the Methodist service could be described as an act of memory, it was one of several in recent weeks.

Malick daringly tries to capture not just memories but the feelings aroused by the act of memory — indeed, to represent subjectivity itself, by way of the cinema.

I saw it and felt oddly proud of myself, as if that one act of memory had blown away some of the cobwebs of the day.

Yet for Hurwitz, the act of memory itself is no redemption; in the absence of drastic political change, it is, paradoxically, a further source of derangement and crisis.