Sentence examples for inability to forget from inspiring English sources

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And what, in the end, do you think accounts for Nell's attraction to him, and her inability to forget him?

An inability to forget the forgettable — wasn't that a burden, or was it just part of the price one paid to make great art?

That inability to forget, Mayer-Schönberger argues, limits one's decision-making ability and ability to form close links with people who remember less.

Jorge Luis Borges wrote a story, "Funes the Memorious," about a man who is paralyzed by his inability to forget anything.

Like those tough guys in Reservoir Dogs ready to squabble like kids over who gets to be called Mr Black, these people's paranoia, machismo and inability to forget a slight utterly destroy it all.

If this process is prevented, for instance by disturbed sleep, the emotional 'charge' of a traumatic memory remains, resulting in an inability to forget the trauma which is the hallmark of PTSD8.

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While it's certainly not uncommon to forget someone's face, the inability to recognize a face is called face blindness, or prosopagnosia (pràs-ō-pag-nōz-ya).

It was inevitably mired in the family's grief and desire to forget, a now recognized unwillingness or inability of survivors to share painful matters.

Shame, for Levinas, expresses the inability to make others forget that we are naked in our flesh.

To forget?

The middle classes would prefer to forget about this situation, rather than pay more taxes to rectify it.Gail MowatSao PauloSIR – You consider security, just one aspect of the inability of the Brazilian government to perform its basic functions.

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