Sentence examples for willfully forgotten from inspiring English sources

But that hard-won insight has now been willfully forgotten.

We've been there, seen it, willfully forgotten it.

All of which makes the Sellout's odyssey, from a willfully forgotten black suburb to the highest court in the land, so perfect.

Gradually, Tony assembles his willfully forgotten past impressions and actions, joining together the links that connect him to these people, as if trying to form a "chain of individual responsibilities" that might explain how it happened that his life's modest wages had resulted in "the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss".

It's to Cheever, even more than to The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, that we owe a core-cultural suite of images of the fifties: the fathers working in Manhattan, the commuter trains, the autumn leaves on suburban lawns, the overwhelmed young mothers, the willfully forgotten war, the drinking.

Twenty years ago when I traveled from Hanoi, south along the spine of the country, to Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, I was astounded by the way the war had been willfully forgotten: people I met did not want to talk about it.

They were largely empathetic to James's position, asserting that if he left Cleveland, many supposedly loyal fans would remember only the Game 5 defeat against Celtics in May and willfully forget all the heroics of other campaigns.

Toward the end, there's a scene in which the alcoholic Verlaine, accompanied by his prostitute pal Eugénie, consents to give an interview to a journalist who's burning to unravel the mystery that pervades the novel: "how a poet of almost unfathomable abilities could willfully forget how to write".

Bruce referenced one instance where the couple agreed they could willfully forget the name of their undercover RCMP accomplice if they were captured and tortured.

The groupthink of the McCain campaign as the numbers were slipping to Obama was to willfully forget that Palin wasn't ready for prime time, and that the seriousness of this was compounded by McCain's age.

Some details of the conflict have been willfully buried or forgotten, by both sides of the war.