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Example sentences for: lapse

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Gore's problem, therefore, is not that he is a "beta" (vice presidents--even Lyndon Johnson--must be) or that he is reserved (so was Lincoln), but that hiring a Dick Morris hanger-on like Naomi Wolf and trying to hide it shows a "stunning lapse in intelligence," a daft inability to perceive what will mobilize and what will alienate the voters.
I'm disappointed in Weisberg's lapse of logic and lack of understanding of what it means to be a good parent.
None of these stories note that these calls come right after Congress let the independent counsel law lapse.
But their youthful charitable lapse must still be explained.
There's a curious lapse in today's effort by the WP 's generally excellent media reporter Howard Kurtz.