Sentence examples for effort to forget from inspiring English sources

"I must have made a conscious effort to forget," he says.

There is also an effort to forget the "moral policing" of the past, when Shiv Sena activists harassed couples in parks.

The futility of trying to forget gets the following treatment: "When you put in that much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory.

Robert Merivel, the protagonist and narrator of Rose Tremain's Restoration, is much concerned with the effort to forget things – to consign them to "that part of my brain" filled "with utter darkness … into which so much of what I have once known is carefully crammed".

But the novel is kept from getting to the bottom of it by the adult Queeney's effort to forget things instead of figuring them out: "It cannot be repeated too often that circumstances surrounding my early life were such that certain events cannot be recalled without grave disturbance of spirits".

Most significant, the country has made a systematic effort to forget – to forget everything about Vietnam.

His coping mechanism, he tells the camera, is to keep working in an effort to try to forget what he has done.

And the amnesia book, which revealed all the melodrama in a family's efforts to forget the horrible death of a baby named Jonah, lets its terrible secret remain buried.

Sometimes a place itself can hold painful memories and render all your efforts to forget a friend futile.

One generation's solemn effort to never forget is another generation's skateboard platform.

In mere moments, with minimal effort, I managed to forget these very simple, very cheerfully given instructions.