Sentences with phrase «of amnesia about»

These restrictions significantly impacted the writing of history during this time and led to an erasure of or a kind of amnesia about artists working outside of officially sanctioned (read traditional) practices.

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Many of us understand that some in Congress have a short memory, but amnesia about what caused the calamity of 2008 is unacceptable and could get eerily ugly.

This mistake represents a) precisely the amnesia about reckless finance that repeatedly shows up years after the last crisis, b) an underestimate by the Senate Democrats signing on to the measure of the risk brought back into the system, and c) an almost completely unnecessary bit of work.

Catholic higher education is uniquely positioned to do something about these twinned problems of historical amnesia and political - cultural corruption.

Oh my gosh this sounds UH - mazing!!!! And I totally know what you mean about spice cabinet amnesia... I think I have like 4 things of paprika and a couple jars of turmeric.

Wow, I feel like I have total amnesia about all of this stuff.

Barbed comments about the paper's «collective amnesia» prompt feelings of injustice and frustration, not respect, for those at the tabloid.

Michael Lemonick, opinion editor at Scientific American, talks about his most recent book, The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory and Love, about Lonni Sue Johnson, who suffered a specific kind of brain damage that robbed her of much of her memory and her ability to form new memories, and what she has revealed to neuroscientists about memory and the brain.

Dr Burgess added: «Amongst our allied health professions, what we did know about from decades of research and hundreds of case studies, is that bilateral damage to the hippocampal and / or diencephalon structures causes profound amnesia, and in the absence of apparent structural damage to these structures, it left an explanation widely open to speculation.

Dr Burgess said: «One of our reasons for writing up this individual's case was that we had never seen anything like this before in our assessment clinics, and we do not know what to make of it, but felt an honest reporting of the facts as we assessed them was warranted, that perhaps there will be other cases, or people who know more than we do about what might have caused the patient's amnesia.

Corkin's biography of «H.M.» draws on her decades of work with the man whose amnesia has taught us so much about memory.

Oh my gosh this sounds UH - mazing!!!! And I totally know what you mean about spice cabinet amnesia... I think I have like 4 things of paprika and a couple jars of turmeric.

LeRoy's schmaltzy and literary romantic melodrama, about a WWI vet who suffers from amnesia, was a huge commercial hit due to Greer Garson and Ronald Colman's acting and the fact that it was released in the midst of WWII.

Open Grave (R for profanity, disturbing violence and graphic images) Murder mystery about an amnesia victim (Sharlto Copley) who wakes up in a pit of dead bodies with no idea who he is, how he got there, or who the killer is.

Brutal Legend makers Double Fine wish you a happy holiday, with visions of Stacking and Costume Quest under the tree, plus possible hints about the next two downloadable games coming from the developer's «Amnesia Fortnight» project.

Pandorum (R for profanity and graphic horror violence) Sci - fi horror flick about a couple of stranded astronauts (Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster) with amnesia who gradually realize they're no longer alone on their spaceship and that the survival of mankind is dependent upon them.

Shaun the Sheep Rated PG for rude humor Available on DVD and Blu - ray From the creators of Wallace & Gromit comes this fantastic little stop - motion animated film about a family of sheep who inadvertently give their owner amnesia while trying to take a day off, and then go on an adventure to recover him.

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia: This documentary about the late author, historian, social commentator, and wit would be a must - see no matter what, but it's also being hailed as a rounded, nuanced portrait of Vidal as well.

Part of the reason why we have amnesia about this is that the new technologies we grew up with as children don't count as technology for us anymore.

What can we do as educational and cultural workers, at this crucial moment in history, when corporate revenue expands as the job market shrinks, when there is such a callous disregard for human suffering and human life, when the indomitable human spirit gasps for air in an atmosphere of intellectual paralysis, social amnesia, and political quiescence, when the translucent hues of hope seem ever more ethereal, when thinking about the future seems anachronistic, when the concept of utopia has become irretrievably Disneyfied, when our social roles as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, when media analyses of military invasions is just another infomercial for the US military industrial complex with its huge global arms industry, and when teachers and students alike wallow in absurdity, waiting for the junkyard of consumer life to vomit up yet another panacea for despair?

We're sure you know all about the upcoming LG Ally from Verizon, thanks to yesterday's exclusive scoop, but just in case you're having a bit of amnesia, here's what you need to know.

I notice people trying to rally around B&N as the «plucky underdog» seem to develop selective amnesia about the disappearance of places like Waldenbooks and B. Dalton in the mid-90's, even when the DNA evidence is sprayed all over B&N walls (sorry for the visual).

While horror game buffs know what games and developers are worth checking out, many players found out about the team and their games due to hundreds of videos showing Youtube personalities losing their minds playing Amnesia: The Dark Descent ¸ one of the scariest indie games around.

I felt that this was one of the jarring things about Amnesia - it was a game that succeeded very well at show - don «t - tell, so when this was explicitly mentioned, I felt a little let down.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent puts you in the shoes of Daniel as he wakes up in a desolate castle, barely remembering anything about his past.

It wasn't surprising to see the game's sci - fi follow - up, SOMA, follow a similar path, but for a variety of reasons — a lot of games had copied Amnesia, SOMA's sci - fi trappings had a broader appeal — SOMA didn't land in the same way, and lots of players were frustrated about trying to dodge the game's creatures.

«I've been really excited about Spacebase DF - 9 ever since it was one of the highest - voted games in our public Amnesia Fortnight game jam last year,» said Double Fine president and CEO Tim Schafer.

They need to take a long break, or to speed things up, have a Kurt Russelesque shirtless man sneak up on each developer and deliver an amnesia - inducing elbow to the back of the head (shitty video games cause violence), then have them read some books, play some modern RPG's and reconsider their approach to storytelling, character interaction, combat, dialog and everything else that is stale about Final Fantasy.

But Glory of Heracles I and II laid the foundation for the plot - heavy Glory of Heracles III, a story about a nameless immortal with amnesia.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is one of these games everyone has heard about but hardly anyone has played, or at least hardly anyone has played them played to the end.

Figment so far comprises three ambitious and increasingly surreal videos about the phenomenon of amnesia.

In evoking Italian amnesia about its colonial past, and the need for the re-evaluation of its violent heritage, Kentridge explores the duality of selfhood trauma involved in re-evaluating the self.

The 1974 catalogue reveals that artists had doubts about technical progress and the use of mass media, and in general were anxious about a cultural amnesia in society.

I think it's a good thing, but point out the disinformation: Until now, RT has been sponsoring denialism, and now RT has amnesia about this fact and is claiming (in the not - very - sincere way that is typical of them) that denialism is an American phenomenon.

I have seen a fair amount of recent liberal legal scholarship that really does seem to recapitulate, in its unthinking doctrinairism and unquestioning use of contestable premises, everything the Crits wrote about and against, while operating at a fairly high level of either bad faith and denial, or amnesia.

This public health crisis demands legislative action and not legislative amnesia about what works and what is needed,» said Jackie Gillan, President of Advocates.

Newly appointed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar also delivered a powerful speech this week to the National Suicide Prevention Conference, saying that too many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have to live with a cycle of despair and the toll of intergenerational trauma, exacerbated by «wilful amnesia» that non-Indigenous people can sometimes suffer about the history of the First People.