Sentence examples for memory play in from inspiring English sources

"The Waverly Gallery," which Mr. Lonergan has said was inspired by his grandmother's last years, is a memory play in several senses.

"It was unique in that it was a memory play in 1949 from an experience the entire nation had just gone through.

But as playwright and director, Mr. Nelson revels in and shrewdly manipulates the conventions of the memory play in ways that are hard to resist.

Once in a while you're lucky enough to read a book that compels you to ask questions: What part does memory play in grief?

Anyone worried that Beckett might have been getting a little sentimental in this memory play, in which a 69-year-old man listens to tape recordings of his younger self, will be reassured by Wilson's determinedly chilly staging.

Less a conventional drama than an autobiographical essay given dramatic form, this new work from Kenneth Lonergan, the author of "This Is Our Youth," is nonetheless deeply theatrical, a memory play in the classic sense (a la "Glass Menagerie") as well as a play about memory and how it fails us.

The result is "intelligent fiction, vigorous both in its observation of human foible and in its speculation on the role that memory plays in underwriting our sense of choice and direction in our lives," Michael Upchurch wrote in the Book Review last year.

Dennis McFarland's novels -- from the luminous "Music Room" (1990) through the ineffectual "Face at the Window" (1997) -- have all been concerned with the nervous relationship between the present and the past and the protean role that memory plays in shaping individuals' sense of themselves.

This study investigates the role that memory plays in interpreting and using distorted graphs that mislead the user of the financial information.

Surprisingly, the memory plays in reverse, which may strengthen it so the rat can later retrace his steps to this mysterious food-giving place.

It is important to notice that while Reid uses the term 'evidence,' when describing the role that memory plays in first-personal knowledge of one's own past, memory is not used by persons to justify judgments or beliefs about their own pasts.