forgetfulness

How To Use forgetfulness In A Sentence

• To come alive again, one needs a special grace, self - forgetfulness or a homeland.
• With it, Aristotle's notion of place as a container gives way to dispersion, loss and forgetfulness.
• There was never much money, perhaps just enough, the few pounds that Father sent us; but it was her own muddlehead that Mother was fighting, her panic and innocence, forgetfulness, waste, and the creeping tide of debt. Cider With Rosie
• This forgetfulness comes daily in a blanket of fog.
• There was not the usual forgetfulness that comes with moving house; no chair forgotten, no scraps of paper overlooked, no pins or knick-knacks left abandoned behind a chest of drawers.
• But if what we remember we hold it in memory, yet, unless we did remember forgetfulness, we could never at the hearing of the name recognise the thing thereby signified, then forgetfulness is retained by memory. The Confessions
• She shook her purse in her hand until the coins jingled, as if she alluded merely to this example of her forgetfulness. Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf
• Remembrance is a form of meeting, forgetfulness is a form of freedom.
• Although the truth of his extravagant feelings is proved by his death, and though when he digs up a treasure he spurns the wealth which seems to tempt him, we yet see distinctly enough that the vanity of wishing to be singular, in both the parts that he plays, had some share in his liberal self-forgetfulness, as well as in his anchoritical seclusion. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
• But to Marina Buriakov, the reward for her forgetfulness is the opportunity to revisit, room by room and painting by painting ... The Madonnas of Leningrad: Summary and book reviews of The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean.