Sentence examples for mistake of memory from inspiring English sources

Never mind that this was a terrible mistake of memory, that he was a faithful, law-observing, Shema-proclaiming Jew to the end, and that, John's words notwithstanding, the only ones to receive Jesus in his lifetime were Jews.

The state's submission to the court concludes that "contradictions and discrepancies" in Tongo's evidence "may flow from natural defects of observation" and "mistakes of memory".

I was beginning to suspect that this was not about a simple mistake, a commonplace failure of memory in a busy, important older man.

Ever since the nightly news anchor apologised on Wednesday for what he said was a "terrible mistake" due to the "fog of memory over 12 years", more details have emerged about Mr Williams's progressively more exaggerated claims.

"He tried to pass these inaccuracies off as mere lapses of memory and mistakes," Judge Duffy wrote.

Cameron's mistake evoked memories of Tony Blair's "Jackie Milburn moment", when he was quoted as having claimed that  he saw "Wor Jackie" play for Newcastle United, when in fact he was only four when Milburn retired.

This mistake has led to substantial interpretation errors in a variety of memory experiments (e.g., Dougal & Rotello, 2007; Evans, Rotello, Li, & Rayner, 2009; Verde & Rotello, 2003).

Luckily, the many mistakes I made as a young man have faded into the recesses of memory, relived only at the occasional college reunion.

Many Buddhists take something close to this position: they regard our entire sense of self as a product of mistaking memories, thoughts, or emotions for something more than fleeting sensations.

Lapses are failures of memory and often occur as a result of distractions or interruptions, whereas mistakes are caused by inappropriate clinical reasoning and failures in planning or problem solving [ 10].

Braid is about the tragedy of time and the impermanence of memory; the time-reversal feature functions as a metaphor for loss and learning from mistakes.