Sentence examples for slip of memory from inspiring English sources
("Don't forget the cocoa!" No, Mother, I won't). Supplies in the old days were thrown off passing trains, but now a slip of memory means a big journey.
In any event, the unsigned memorandum on which the report was based mysteriously disappeared, and its evidential value has a lower ranking than the "Kent list". Madison, whose recollection of the respective authorship of The Federalist letters has been substantiated by studies of the internal evidence, may also have been guilty of a slip of memory in regard to No. 64.
It has the poignancy of the packrat: He does not want to lose a single slip of memory.
Some years later, while playing Rachmaninov, he did have slips of memory.
Sitting on the side of the stage in a La-Z Boy reclining chair, in a well-worn cardigan and nightgown, Ann keeps correcting her daughter's distortions of fact and slips of memory.
Before that we chuck our slips of memory, or forgetfulness, up to goodness-know-what.
Now I'm glad for a different reason: it helps me remember small details about him, the little things that slip out of memory, that fade with time.
"The Retrieval" comes at you like a haunting slip of a memory, one that writer-director Chris Eska retrieves from a mostly forgotten era in unforgettable ways.
This was on the grounds that as Will's work was slipping out of memory and his reputation falling, it was the wife, who had sacrificed so much for his career, who would have had a strong motive in preserving his legacy.
In recent years she has deepened her subtle form of portraiture, writing scripts, commissioning music, assembling fragments of all kinds of footage into films that try to capture the slip-sliding vagaries of memory.
"I asked her if it might have been a case of parapraxis—Freud's term for the lapses of memory, slips of the tongue, and other minor suppressions of consciousness that occur in everyday life".It soon becomes clear that a mysteriously moving bookmark is the least of Lawrence's worries.
