Sentence examples for memory at bay from inspiring English sources

Some of the novel's finest passages are her thoughts on keeping memory at bay and moving on.

I had held those memories at bay for too long for fear of hurting myself.

They also prescribed the painkiller Oxycontin, and Toone found that it helped soothe the ache in his back and keep the memories at bay.

And all admitted to drinking or smoking marijuana to keep the memories at bay, though, as they often discovered, the effect could be just the opposite.

Alone, unable to move but also unable to keep her memories at bay, J. A. thinks back to her many years of running the McCullough empire.

Most of Adrien's family was killed in the Rwandan genocide, in 1994, and he told me cycling helps him keep traumatic memories at bay — that he rides to forget.

"My job was not to dig through the trade center rubble to find pieces of civilians and colleagues; my job was to be there with the men who were doing it," he says quietly, as if speaking in a monotone helps keep bad memories at bay. "Intrusive imaging wasn't just words on a page.

And as a war veteran trying to keep his memories at bay, he gravitates toward the familiar pleasures of camping and fishing: "He had made his camp.

But the magic doesn't really work, and if we persist in the struggle to keep our memories at bay we may come to resemble the stone statues in the garden, transfixed and petrified by the past.

Eating nutritious food, getting plenty of sleep, and working out a few times a week will go a long way toward keeping bad memories at bay.

When the workday is over and business distractions end, the people at Sandler O'Neill & Partners find they cannot keep the memories of Sept. 11 at bay.