Sentence examples for forgetfulness in from inspiring English sources

In the "Phaedrus," he lamented the invention of books, which "create forgetfulness" in the soul.

It wasn't just Miliband's conference forgetfulness in Manchester that made yesterday's speech long overdue.

Some deep wrong has been committed, a terrible trauma that demands forgetfulness in order for the Britons' crumbling society to carry on functioning.

The film could be described as Exhibit A in a study of media celebrity and collective forgetfulness in the age of information overload.

The moldy tale of the rejected lover renouncing the world for poverty and forgetfulness in a moribund fever port would never issue from his lips.

So, after the final curtain, she went out with her young man and sought forgetfulness in a succession of fashionable Barrooms.

7. Heidegger (1962 85) diagnoses the reason for our tendency to think this way in his notion of "falling": our practical absorption in the world leads to a kind of self-forgetfulness in which we think of ourselves in terms of what we have most to do with, namely, in terms of things.

In some cases, this is about sloppy editing and perhaps forgetfulness, while in other cases, it may be a deliberate attempt to pass off the work as the writer's own.

Both women are relatively lucid, their forgetfulness surfacing in spurts.

But the basic reasons for total forgetfulness lie in the original briefs.

Others associated themselves with the forgetfulness described in our article on midlife memory loss.