In one chapter alone does Stephens himself lapse into something like uncritical approbation.
But these jokes slowly lapse into something more unnerving.
(Shades of "Some Like It Hot" and "Twentieth Century": when train travel lapsed in America, something died in the national sense of humor).
In the past, when the economy came down with a cold, the classic-car market lapsed into something close to pneumonia.
Attributing a slight memory lapse to something ominous going on in your brain will lead you, and others, to see yourself as less than mentally capable.
How many times in your life have you thought to yourself, "I should have listened to my intuition on this?" Often in hindsight after we've made a mistake, had a lapse in judgment, or experienced something painful, we realize that at some level we already knew it would turn out that way, we just didn't listen to our instincts.
It was as if to her the city's buildings all quivered with change and movement: her view was like time-lapse photography that reveals commotion in something that otherwise, in quick glances, appears to be entirely still.
It was as if to her the city's buildings all quivered with change and movement: her view was like time-lapse photography that reveals commotion in something that otherwise, in quick glances, appears to be entirely still... View Article Susan Orlean began contributing articles to The New Yorker in 1987, and became a staff writer in 1992.
Leaning back on the upholstered couch in his office, Smith, dressed in a cream turtleneck sweater and black-and-green-plaid pants, hypothesized that the lapse in political urgency might have something to do with a corresponding drop in millennial angst.
Unlike tightly coupled errors, we did not find a link between a lapse in patient safety and someone doing something wrong.
But something other than a lapse in logic is at work here.
