What is "amnesiac"

Usage examples of "amnesiac".

There was only the sound of the rain and the rasp of breathing while the girl, mute, amnesiac, shorn, and wasted, climbed out over the brink of the mine-shaft.

He was beginning to trust the flow of words from that hidden part of himself buried behind the amnesiac wall inside.

The consultant -Colville - had clearly taken Paul completely at face value, and presumably a man of his experience and qualifications would have been able to spot a bogus amnesiac with far more facility than she herself would.

How many women, taking an amnesiac total stranger into their house, would also take him into their bed?

Her daring lover had returned to her, banishing the nervous amnesiac of a few moments ago, and she wanted to sing from both relief and fresh desire.

He was like a man rising out of the confusion, an amnesiac returning to himself.

It was almost as though he was morphing into someone else, a self he should know even more intimately than the amnesiac Judd, but to whom he felt a complete stranger.

For months, Dornan had been having god knows what nightmares about Tammy maybe sitting in seven separate garbage bags in a ditch alongside some dirt road in Alabama, or getting married to a red-haired, pompous psychologist, or wandering New York in an amnesiac daze.

Six months ago, sick with food poisoning in some nameless hospital, he had seen this same look of blind struggle in the eyes of amnesiacs or men dying of cancer.

He smokes a lot, orders cheap bourbon from the commissary, and drinks himself into an amnesiac stupor each night.

Effectively, they were amnesiacs with needed skills, but that was fine.

She didn’t suffer from fugues, amnesiac phases, didn’t commit acts of sabotage while blacked out.

I want to mention these things because they all happened in that city that was no place exactly, that was part of no country because it was all countries, and because now if you go there you’ll see modern high-rises, amnesiac boulevards, teeming sweatshops, a NATO headquarters, and a sign that says Izmir .

It's just that, you know, the way things're going, it'd be nice to have someone -- even a dead amnesiac in a resurrection body -- come staggering in.

On the basis of Mo’s on-the-spot evaluation of that hypothetical profile—which he hours later suspected was no more hypothetical than Campbell’s soup—an innocent amnesiac was nearly blown away in a government ambush on New York’s Seventy-first Street.