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How to use forgetfulness in a sentence

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With it, Aristotle's notion of place as a container gives way to dispersion, loss and forgetfulness.
Was Renoir's disavowal of his involvement in politics in the United States a matter of forgetfulness?
Many of us were concerned about his increasing forgetfulness, but he had been unreceptive to gentle suggestions about downsizing or getting help.
The court considered a belief may be honestly held whether it stems from intoxication, stupidity, forgetfulness or inattention.
The traditions of the citizens were abolished, the immaculate webs of tradition obscured by the dust of centuries, the dust of forgetfulness.
Ordinary forgetfulness that emerges after a trauma must not be confused with amnesia for the trauma.
And passive-aggressive lateness or forgetfulness certainly falls under this category.
We suspect one of the weapons being used in the cultural war is a secret ray gun that induces forgetfulness and lethargy.
She had learned the hard way a long time ago that forgetfulness was considered negligence.
I've always been a bit forgetful and have used my forgetfulness as an excuse before being diagnosed.
In neat testimony to the process, in academic publishing, history has been collapsing into memory, memory into trauma, and trauma into studies of silence and forgetfulness.
The area itself is representative of contortions of memory, cramps of forgetfulness which illustrates Beirut.
Finally I made a mistake because old age affected me and that old age is the mother of forgetfulness.
I could blame my lack of motivation on forgetfulness, but that's just another excuse?
Simple bromide intoxication is characterized by dullness, sluggishness, forgetfulness and irritability.
The Constitution does not mandate lenience, forgiveness or forgetfulness.
These changes may manifest initially as simple absentmindedness or forgetfulness or as minor problems with judgment, language, or perception.
For anyone who wishes to learn how the cycle of contumely and pardon — or simple forgetfulness — spins in England, note the consequence.
Its great contribution to human progress had been covered by forgetfulness for more than 2000 years.
It works as a stimulant and boosts attention, helping to deal with concentration problems and forgetfulness.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I confess that, when I beheld you in the ante room, I blushed for my past forgetfulness.
I will plead forgetfulness now of Captain Cayley, since you force it on me.
And this helped to perfect his character, to elevate him to a complete forgetfulness of self.
All the wealth of this world cannot buy peace for Henry Dunbar, or forgetfulness.
Her hand had strayed lightly over his hair in that instant of forgetfulness.
He would never have lapsed into forgetfulness if the bell had not ceased to ring.
This disdain, this forgetfulness, has been carefully fostered by Germany and Russia.
His chief defect was his forgetfulness and absence of mind, which made him mismanage important business.
Chassidism and its necessary dependence upon the zaddik offered the masses the means of this forgetfulness of self through faith.
And what a desert for eternal rest, forgetfulness of all the world!
His was a sudden, heavy lapsing into forgetfulness, unmarred by dreams.
I'm really ashamed of my forgetfulness again, but I'm afraid it's partly YOUR fault for entertaining me to the exclusion of yourself.
A pause of forgetfulness, and then he had even suffered, and had come back to her, dead and at peace, and yet there was no difference in him.
The solitude I had found, the forgetfulness, of course, I had not.
And the same instant his head did begin to feel drowsy and he began to drop off into forgetfulness.
I expect no grandness, and I am sure you expect no forgetfulness.
Trust to Time, the healer, to bring change and forgetfulness.
Ere forgetfulness altogether came over me, I had noticed that the seamen at the main and mizen mast-heads were already drowsy.
When souls have loved, there is no falsehood or forgetfulness.
I remember,' said the gentleman, striking his nose with the knuckle of his forefinger as a chastening for his forgetfulness.
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