What is "fune"

Usage examples of "fune".

Procopio, si spezzava la fune e il corpo precipitava sul lastrico con grande fracasso.

Dean Funes only sees duplicity of language, but seems to excuse it in the circumstances in which the Jesuits were placed.

One of the commissaries, Don Juan de Echevarria, is known to have left a curious account of the proceedings, from which Dean Funes, Ibanez, and most of the writers on the subject must have copied.

As Dean Funes tartly writes, the miracle that Bucareli wished, but scarcely dared to hope for, had taken place.

No one who knows the Indians but must confess that Dean Funes had made a study of their character deeper than is his own.

I had nightmares that somehow Funes was devouring my mnemonic capability to feed his own.

This brought sharp words from Funes, who, as you may imagine, had no patience with the memory lapses of others.

I had a half-formed idea that Funes was deliberately causing my weird forgetfulness, and I was afraid of what I might find out.

Half an our of searching finally turned it up under his pillow, and again Funes and I examined it interestedly, wondering how we could forget such a commonplace object.

I had a limited success with this effort, since Funes forgot the pepper-mill whenever he averted his eyes from it.

As I left, I heard her wonder to herself about how she could have cooked so long for Funes without having a pepper-mill.

The days were carefree and happy, and I dreaded returning to the cottage to cook for Funes, who would stare at the pepper-mill, looking quite deranged, and mutter to himself in different languages, describing it over and over again, for hours on end, and then suddenly shut his eyes and try to remember it.

Cicero wrote De Oratore, and at about the same time as, in Argentina, Borges was writing Funes the Memorious, the Russian neuropsychologist Alexander Luria encountered a patient with a peculiar problem, an apparent inability to forget.

If the ancient art of memory was intended to enable the rest of us to learn how to behave in a way that Shereskevskii, Finkelstein - and Funes - could not help behaving, then its success depends on the fact that except when we are employing the technique we do not remember in this way.

If the brain were not, most of the time, invariant, unmoved by experience, we would be unable to survive, as indeed the fates of Funes and Shereskevskii attest.