Sentence examples for amnesia from inspiring English sources

Historical amnesia is certainly liberating – so liberating that America is once again diving into free fall, unmoored by any critical or intellectual insight into its own myths, or even into the histories of the debates that we think define our moment.

That transient global amnesia has much in common with a casual dream, when we become something else to protect us from real life.

'Our party was crippled by the merger,' said another during the morning debate over whether to have a debate on the constitution, 'now it's going to shoot itself in both feet.' It is often said that people like this can be jogged out of their amnesia and trauma by familiar faces from the past, doing typical things from their previous lives.

A quick trip around the conservative mediasphere of the moment suggests collective amnesia (fueled by frustration) about the resolution last winter to stay relevant to the audience outside its own Beltway.

Cameron meanwhile didn't deliver the knockout blow activists had bragged about, and had his own moments of amnesia: asked about education, he talked about disciplining pupils rather than the party's supposedly "flagship" free schools policy.

Miliband is now on the backbenches, joking that he "used to be famous", not because of temporary amnesia or a regrettable commission to a stonemason.

Naomi Jacobs has written a book, Forgotten Girl, about the time she went to bed – her final exams for a psychology degree approaching; in the middle of a break-up with the father of her son; worrying about the success of her business – and in the night was struck with transient global amnesia (TGA), a form of memory loss brought on by stress.

Do we believe Herrick's amnesia is real?

I reasoned with myself that, because I'd got home safely at the end of the night, the police had weren't likely to be interested I'd shown classic symptoms of having had my drink spiked – including amnesia, visual problems, nausea, unconsciousness and lowered inhibitions – but I didn't know what the guy looked like.

Governments are well aware of this power of media saturation as a tool for inducing political amnesia.

According to a report in the daily Corriere della Sera, psychiatrists who have examined Daniele are convinced he is not feigning amnesia.