Jim Cantrell

Enigma is really an investment in peace of mind. I keep a lot of confidential information on my laptop. I'm usually very careful about keeping my laptop under close physical control but had an unfortunate lapse and left it on a plane. That could have cost me dearly if not for the Enigma.

American Businessman

Noam Chomsky

Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.

American Activist

Matt Letscher

The ban on assault weapons was a good and necessary law that was allowed to lapse through the influence of special interests.

American Actor

David Storey

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

British Novelist

Charlie Baker

Nobody wants to see someone's life ruined over a small-time lapse in judgment.

American Politician

Lillie Langtry

I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.

British Actress

Denis Leary

I'm a lapsed Catholic in the best sense of the word.

Eddie Perez

Guillermo del Toro

Mexican Director

Dennis Miller

American Comedian

Use 'lapse' to describe a brief decline in quality or performance.

Temporary Decline

'Lapse' implies a brief pause in activity or attention, often leading to a mistake.

Short Inactivity

'Lapse' can mark the end of a time period, often implying expiry of eligibility or rights.

Period's End

In contracts, 'lapse' signifies the non-renewal or termination of an agreement.

Non-Renewal Consequence

'Lapse' as a verb shows a slow ending, especially when going unnoticed.

Gradual Ending

It can describe the gradual diminishing of emotions, energies, or states.

Subtle Decline

Use 'lapse' to suggest a return to former, often negative, behaviors or conditions.

Recurring Behavior

'Lapse' indicates a step back into a less developed or less positive state.

Regression Indicator

 is we have them take a series of attention tests. We track their attention at the beginning of some kind of high-stress interval, and then two months later, we track them again, and we want to see if there's a difference. Is there any benefit of offering them mindfulness training? Can we protect against the lapses in attention

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 Now we turn on our time lapse. This camera was shooting every hour. Geologic process in action here. And everybody says, well don't they advance in the winter time? No. It was retreating through the winter because it's an unhealthy glacier. Finally catches up to itself, it advances.

James Balog: Time-lapse...

 Slime mold grows at about one centimeter an hour, so it's not really ideal for live viewing unless there's some form of really extreme meditation, but through the time lapse, I could observe some really interesting behaviors. For instance, having fed on a nice pile of oats,

Heather Barnett: What...

 Women's estrogens, on the other hand, start fading in midlife, during menopause, which is anything but symptom-free. We associate menopause with the ovaries, but when women say that they're having hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia, memory lapses, depression, anxiety,

How menopause affects...

 might be able to film this so the clock was ticking winter is reaching down from the cold world above the guys came up utterly exhausted and we set it to run for an eight hour eight hour time lapse and we knew we then had to go away and the next day uh come back to

Filming Antarctica's...

 The second dog lapses into complete depression. The circumstances of our lives may actually matter less to our happiness than the sense of control we feel over our lives. It's an interesting question. We ask the question -- the whole debate in the Western world

Rory Sutherland:...

 exactly the same level of pain as the dog in the first box but it has no control over the circumstances generally the first dog can be relatively content the second dog lapses into complete depression the circumstances of our

Perspective is...

 understand what happens in the deep ocean when a dolphin lays to rest prior to this no one has ever done time lapse on deep-sea marine mammals hopefully these cameras are going to be

Watch: Decomposing...

 There is movement which is too slow for our eyes to detect, and time lapse makes us discover and broaden our perspective of life. We can see how organisms emerge and grow,

Hidden miracles of the...

 chipmunk cheeks Oh daydreaming most people think it's just idle reverie a lapse and attention but what if it's actually the habitual practice of imagining the practice of

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