Sentence examples for the unreliability of memory from inspiring English sources

The preciousness of memory doesn't make it less unreliable; the unreliability of memory doesn't make it less precious.

What prompted you to write about the unreliability of memory?

The principal themes are time, love, betrayal and the unreliability of memory.

"Flight" toys with an interesting idea or two: the slipperiness of truth, the unreliability of memory.

Rabbit begins by looking like a modern comedy of manners; it ends up musing on the unreliability of memory.

When we look at how memories are constructed by the brain, the unreliability of memory makes perfect sense.

The result is strangely epistemological: it raises questions around how we know what we know, about the unreliability of human memory.

By quite consciously disregarding calendar time, flaunting the unreliability of her memory, and breaking the conventions about what a woman could and couldn't say about her own life and body, Guggenheim produced a piece of modernist prose that exhibited the same daring and originality as the art she loved to collect.

But as history comes to be written entirely from documents, "there can be, paradoxically, far more rigour in the analysis, as sources are tested against each other, and the unreliability of active memory ceases to intrude".

There are implications to the unreliability of childhood memories.

With its fixation on past events and assiduous exposure of the fatal unreliability of memory (details and chronology slip and slide in Alexander's recollection; seasons shift in an instant from spring to autumn, the sun jumps back and forth across the sky), Ancient Light works well as a meditation on memory and the lies we permit it to tell us.