Sentence examples for imperfect memories from inspiring English sources

What remains are their sons' imperfect memories.

When reporting on events that he did not personally witness, he carefully checked the reports of eyewitnesses, bearing in mind their partiality and imperfect memories.

This isn't a history but many histories, overlapping and often conflicting: a patchwork of imperfect memories, retrospective insights, time-burnished anecdotes and reheated grievances.

Her parents "were never in the party" — that's the Communist Party, for those of you with imperfect memories — "but they were active and obviously influenced by the politics of the era".

We are dreamers, we humans, cursed with famously imperfect memories designed to minimize our own traumas and the Pollyanna-ish penchant for imagining things bigger and better and more romantic than they were or could ever be.

In the presence of these connoisseurs, the rest of us are left to feel like novices, adrift on a wine-dark sea with nothing more to guide us than hackneyed, overbroad stereotypes (white with fish, red with meat) and imperfect memories (didn't I kind of like that Kendall-Jackson merlot?).

His brain is the notebook is the computer: imperfect memory devices sustaining a broken system.

If the work has a theme, it's imperfect memory, summoned from images and ruminated on, bit by bit.

He is a forward-looking man with an incisive, though admittedly imperfect, memory, and his historical insights, particularly where Ellington is concerned, are often profound.

Each episode is like a dream, a gently contoured moment from childhood or urban life obscured in the vapor of the aging narrator's imperfect memory.

Canin, contrariwise, pieces together, in mostly short takes, an airy collage of imperfect memory and fleeting impression, as Corey's recollection of a bygone misfortune, half-comprehendingly witnessed in his adolescence, keeps reverting to pleased contemplation of his bourgeois present.