Sentence examples for recede in memory from inspiring English sources

And especially in the unlikely event that there are no further attacks on the United States in the next few years, allowing Sept. 11, 2001, to recede in memory.

A similar illusion of getting even appears to have been at work in the shooting of two New York City cops last winter (a killing that has already receded in memory, though not, surely, for the families of the victims).

The so-called Troubles in Northern Ireland are receding in memory, certainly among Anglicans on the British mainland, since the predominantly Roman Catholic Irish Republican Army declared a truce in 1994.

Despite his long and controversial tenure, it seems that everything that happened before has diminished in importance and receded in memory, waiting for future historians to resurrect it and put it in perspective.

The General Slocum, which killed members of a German Lutheran church excursion, also quickly receded in memory because of the start of World War I and the resultant anti-German feeling, wrote Edward T. O'Donnell in his book, "Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum" (Broadway Books, 2003).

Reynolds understands that the idea of the great war as trenches and poems grew in significance from the 1960s, and was soon embedded in school curricula and media representations of the conflict (unlike in continental European countries, where the war receded in popular memory due to the horrors and conflicts provoked by world war two).

The film is beautifully made and wonderfully acted, with shots like Edward Hopper paintings and nostalgic Hank Williams music, and yet there are two scenes of such slow-motion, frame-by-frame violence that the rest of the film has receded in my memory and what I carry with me now is the fist coming down on a woman's face.

The criminal caliphate of the 1980s has receded in public memory, overshadowed by a kind of carnal Hunger Games where primped teenagers buzzed on jello shots wrestle one another for pole position in the mamading line.

Only when retailers and consumers both flood the Internet in significant proportion, will Black Friday completely recede into memory as a physical retail anachronism.

Yet with the Soviet Union receding in memory, it is a wonder that NATO still exists.

Doers and doings in business, entertainment and technology: As the scandalous likes of Enron and WorldCom (reborn as MCI ) recede into memory, perhaps corporate culture has turned a new page.