This recorded agreement will be invaluable if things get tense and memories begin to get cloudy.
The Pirahã, Everett wrote, have no numbers, no fixed color terms, no perfect tense, no deep memory, no tradition of art or drawing, and no words for "all," "each," "every," "most," or "few" — terms of quantification believed by some linguists to be among the common building blocks of human cognition.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Days later, the survivors' faces tensed at the memory of the grim evening: soldiers dousing thatched-roof homes with gasoline, setting them on fire and shooting residents when they tried to flee.
In The Last Cigarette, the third volume of The Smoking Diaries, Gray achieves spontaneity with an artlessness that's supremely artful, using the present tense as if memories and the act of recording them occurred simultaneously.
It's the kind of story which exists in the past tense – a vivid childhood memory – and I was forever expecting a narrative voiceover from the grownup Ellis to come in, as if in an episode of TV's The Wonder Years, to tell us that after that summer, things would never be the same again.
In other words, the belief that is partly constitutive of episodic memory is tensed.
Family scenes, in both Noah's and Ruth's memories, are tense and cacophonous, spouses loving but missing the point.
As well as the pressures of the racism case and one of the most tense title races in living memory, the 31-year-old full-back has also had to deal with personal tragedy this season.
I followed suit and began to chew, desperately fending off memories of that tense period in the Hundred-Acre Wood when Tigger, seeking a foodstuff that will appeal to his discriminating palate, tries a helping of Eeyore's thistles.
I have vivid memories of feeling tense and worried about the whole process.
