Sentence examples for thing of memory from inspiring English sources

I know only too well that the path I took, of self-directed apprenticeship to the likes of Ellis Rabb, John Houseman, Eva Le Gallienne, Stephen Porter and Bill Ball, is not only overgrown but a thing of memory.

With so much new-found pride in their city, it was easy to imagine that Valencians would never again commit the architectural crimes of the past, that the knee-jerk cementing of the coastline and construction of characterless apartment blocks was a thing of painful memory.

The serene canter to the title that was Sebastian Vettel's 2011 season is a thing of distant memory.

LILLIAN ROSS New York Nora Ephron replies: My book is about, among other things, the vagaries of memory.

If you regularly get the wait cursor when working on the Mac, it could be because of a number of things, including lack of memory (the RAM kind) to efficiently complete the task on screen, not enough available hard-drive space or an overworked processor.

But the spirit and the commitment of the tribunal, no matter the ambivalences and reservations it too may contain, suggests that memory is a strange and often wondrous thing: there is, blessedly, such a thing as the duty of memory – and it often imposes a continuity, particularly when the time calls for it, upon the act of remembering.

And now that HMV is to leave our high street, I think of two things: that memory of my dad, but also a memory of a few years ago, when I went to the counter of the Oxford Street branch with a Pingu box set.

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.

Though his performance was, among many things, a prodigious feat of memory, that is not the way to think of it.

"I had to look up dates, and people will alight on mistakes, but that's not the important thing – the memory of how things felt is what's important.

The Civil War is that paradoxical thing in history, a kind of memory screen.