Sentences with phrase «in vague memories»

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It seems that the operators have no memory of past crises and do not even know, even through vague bookish memories, what happened in 1929 and in the 1930s and thus find themselves totally defenceless.

My memory will inevitably fail me here in many ways, and so let me apologize in advance for being vague and doubtless inaccurate.

Preachers and theologians (especially Protestants) pride themselves on avoiding body - soul dualism, but pious talk at funerals is usually of the departed person surviving as a vague, benign spirit or as a thought in the memories of others.

I have a vague memory of a ministry in Australia which sought out ministers and pastors who had been through something like this.

And then there is that extended British family of children's games from which baseball drew its basic morphology (stoolball, tut - ball, and, of course, rounders); but these are only charming finger - paint renderings of the ideal, vague, and glittering dreams that the infant soul brings with it in its descent from the world above before the oblivion of adulthood purges them from memory; they are as inchoately remote from the real thing as a child's first steps are from ballet.

When details are vague, our minds may have ways of filling in the blanks with false ideas (However, the likelihood of constructing an entire memory of abuse ex nihilo is rather rare.

On 2nd thoughts I wasn't quite so sure; I had vague memories of attempting these once before in the dim and distant past and that they perhaps had not been very successful!

(I do have a vague memory of a deep - fried rice paper roll version in Cambodia or Laos, but I'm talking about just the fresh kind here).

For weeks, she woke up in a panic each night, the vague memories of his birth flashing through her mind.

In fact, recent studies have found that kids younger than three don't retain memories in the long - term (and most kids only have vague recollections of anything that happens before age sevenIn fact, recent studies have found that kids younger than three don't retain memories in the long - term (and most kids only have vague recollections of anything that happens before age sevenin the long - term (and most kids only have vague recollections of anything that happens before age seven).

I have a vague memory of eating them in my high school days before school in the morning.

Though I have a vague memory of the original film I felt this movie did not offer anything special, despite the gender switch in the main characters.

It reminded me of some vague memories I have from when I was a child, sat in front of the TV watching a strange little man competing in the Winter Olympics, in an event Great Britain had not attempted for decades.

From the Zubaz and audio cassette rack sightings to the memory of HBO as a novelty (albeit one that everyone in Lowell can somehow afford), The Fighter sustains its era colorfully and poignantly even while compressing the real timeline in a vague way.

After she wakes up in a handsome stranger's bed, with nothing but the vague memories of the night they spent together, her life changes tremendously.

Awakening in a darkened room in a gothic castle, with no recollection of how you came to be there and only the vaguest notion of who you are, you explore the corridors and hallways piecing your memories together by collecting notes and journal entries left in the musty corners of libraries and sinister laboratories.

The exploration of the story behind the world of Sublevel Zero is a bit too simple and vague to give me an emotional investment in it, but players will be able to fill in that void by the intense space battles and memories they make themselves.

It actually brought on some vague memories of the Suikoden series too, with certain characters needing you to complete specific objectives or side quests in order for them to become a part of your Kingdom.

The only vague memory he can summon in his mind is that of a sculpture atop a hill, depicting human hands reaching towards the sky.

Through her work, she plays with the idea of memory and the psychological self, whether it is in «Tired Men,» a series of photographs of iconic sculptures of Cuban historical figures depicted from the back to portrait «prints» created on an inkless dot matrix printer, their images only seen in the vague embossing created by the printer.

In this case the work becomes part of a commentary on the desire to contain something natural in a culture where environments are created to resemble a vague memory of the real.&raquIn this case the work becomes part of a commentary on the desire to contain something natural in a culture where environments are created to resemble a vague memory of the real.&raquin a culture where environments are created to resemble a vague memory of the real.»

These are not vague shimmers, like Rothko's Slow Swirl at the Edge of the Sea, but scarily real encounters with monsters and memories, made real in jagged black lines that stab through swirls of colour.

It calls up vague memories of a similar sign in Hitchcock's Vertigo, or the Merchant City's associations with the slave trade.

«I begin work with some vague color idea; a memory of a space, a color presence, a color I think I have seen» (B. Marden, quoted in D. Anfam, «Brice Marden», Artforum, January 2007 pp. 242 - 243).

A question: I have a vague memory of years ago someone «denier / pseudo stats dude» was hassling nasa / giss for their raw data of what they used to feed in the avg / mean models for global temps... saying that the adjustments being made was being done to over-state the extent of warming?

Granted this is from memory and the Hottel charts are a touch vague in my mind.

Chief Magistrate Roberts acquitted the accused relying on an earlier Nova Scotia court judgment: «Unless the witness is able to testify with confidence what characteristics and what «something» has stirred and clarified his memory or recognition, then an identification confined to «that is the man», standing by itself, can not be more than a vague general description and is untrustworthy in any sphere of life where certitude is essential.»

The law is a laggard when it comes to change, but I agree with Borelle, «In five years we'll have vague memories of what a paywall was.»

A vague idea of a budget committed to memory isn't as effective as a real budget documented in a spreadsheet, or on one of several budgeting / savings apps for your smartphone.

I have a vague memory I spoke to him in a corridor and may have been introduced.