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loss of memory (partial or total)- The movie is about a woman who suffers amnesia and doesn't even remember her husband.
amnesia = loss of memory
- She describes it as American amnesia whereby we forget our atrocities almost as soon as we commit them.
- Amnesia is much more common in the movies than it is in life.
- There are also strong indications of progressive amnesia.Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon
- And all that is gone on these days is her memory, as if she has amnesia.Nicholas Sparks -- The Notebook
- why can't i remember? ... i lie in bed for days and i don't know who or where i am. then it all comes back to me in a flash. fugues of amnesia.Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon
- He had to hope for amnesia.Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King
- Only the guarantee of amnesia, the fact that the patient will remember nothing but the anesthetist's saying "Sweet dreams," allows us to be surgeons.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- What idiosyncracies of the narrator were concomitant products of amnesia?James Joyce -- Ulysses
- Because how many times in real life does anybody ever get amnesia?Meg Cabot -- The Princess Diaries
- From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.Sue Monk Kidd -- The Secret Life of Bees
- Was it a defense mechanism, amnesia, or simply part of the whole ugly situation?Nora Roberts -- Blood Brothers
- "Traumatic amnesia," Jake Wexler said.Ellen Raskin -- The Westing Game
- We will check for amnesia.Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses
- Or maybe only a semi-invalid, laid up just now and then, with terrific recurrent headaches, or spells of amnesia, of feeblemindedness.James Agee -- A Death in the Family
- Maybe she got knocked on the head and had amnesia and was wandering around Lewiston, not knowing who she really was, or thinking she was someone else.Sharon Creech -- Walk Two Moons
- I'd be like you and Daddy and those other educated blacks sitting over there in Linden Hills with a terminal case of middle-class amnesia."Gloria Naylor -- The Women of Brewster Place
- Maybe he'll get amnesia and forget it.Rick Riordan -- The Throne of Fire
- And okay, maybe I was willing to have a little selective amnesia.Jay Asher -- Thirteen Reasons Why
- I had head injuries-I'll show you the scars when we've got more light-and I am suffering from amnesia.Roger Zelazny -- Nine Princes in Amber
amnesia = loss of memory
amnesia = loss of memory
amnesia = loss of memory
amnesia = loss of memory
amnesia = loss of memory