Forgetting

//fəˈɡɛtɪŋ//

"Forgetting" in a Sentence (12 examples)

It is foolish of you to build a castle in the air while forgetting to drive in pilings for its foundation.

Fancy forgetting my glasses, it's so embarrassing.

Sazae is always forgetting her own phone number.

My mother is constantly forgetting people's names.

I am constantly forgetting names.

I'm always forgetting people's names.

I am already forgetting my grandmother's face.

I am constantly forgetting people's names.

I'm annoyed about them forgetting to pay.

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

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Jelliffe […] asks again and again […] how it was possible for an illness which had been described unmistakably innumerable times to be 'forgotten' anew by each generation. Such forgettings are as dangerous as they are mysterious, for they give us an unwarranted sense of security.

This inability to articulate a complete description can be thought of as of a "piece" with human finitude; the limits, deaths, and forgettings, the "off switches" that also comprise the human narrative.

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