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Example sentences for: lapses

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And they neglect, through ignorance or overconfidence, to take the elementary precautions that would guard against such lapses: above all, to mark up their scripts, the way actors do--inserting a vertical pause here, or a curving tonemarker there, or an underlining to cue emphasis, or three dots to indicate a dying fall...
In practice, indiscreet lapses from objectivity do occur nonetheless, and the market suffers occasional setbacks.
The alternative explanation for his mental lapses: indifference to detail.
Critics agree that the novel lapses at times into "breathless overwriting" (David Wiegland, the San Francisco Chronicle ) but remains "a narrative of considerable ambition and complexity" ( The New Yorker ). (Read an excerpt and an interview with the author here.)
My own favorite coup d'ironie occurs in the paragraph on Robert Craft's lapses: “He also refers to Mozart's first love,” Dr. Ober notes with regret, “as Aloysius,” instead of Aloysia , that is (or “Aloyisia” as the article cunningly renders it!)