Sentence examples for attempts to forget from inspiring English sources

As Anna reveals secrets from her past during moments of lucidity, her grandson attempts to forget more-recent traumas.

4.51pm BST Woods attempts to forget the disappointment of 2 with a pin-high clack to 12 feet at the par-three 3rd.

Though he attempts to forget Retna Sari, he is unable to do so.

Alongside the drinking, the desperate attempts to make friends and your futile attempts to forget that you may, at some point, have to actually learn something, there's the less fun stuff.

Another 12 year old female describes failed attempts to forget despite trying to distract herself.

Eriksson's attempt to forget Mao proved futile, as he had really known it would.

All the jubilation that follows can sound like an attempt to forget whatever existential threat the Scherzo poses.

He returned to Marseilles for a while to recharge his batteries and to attempt to forget the Italian campaign.

A couple of weeks ago, I suggested that the current financial crisis had more to do with pride than with greed – understanding pride as the attempt to forget or obliterate our sense of living within limits and lacking total control.

From its first plaintive piano chords and Berninger's lyrics about "picking apples, making pies" it's clear that there is a focus on characters attempting to forget about the problems and politics of the outside world and focus on domesticity.

Meanwhile, the torturer intermittently turns up the volume on the radio — but no sound comes out of the radio and no screams come out of Bruno, who continues to speak in voice-over about attempting to forget the pain by thinking as much as possible, as quickly as possible — including about Veronika — as he's seen in close-up, looking into the camera with a gaze of defiant serenity.