Sentence examples for a retentive memory from inspiring English sources

As an unabashed "'swot" (the common term before "nerd" appeared) with a retentive memory and a serious reading habit, this was my territory.

Certainly some qualities of mind popularly associated with so-called high-functioning autism — focus, computational ability, a retentive memory, a preference for rational argument over feeling — are useful in most academic fields.

For the persons who possess a retentive memory are not identical with those who excel in power of recollection; indeed, as a rule, slow people have a good memory, whereas those who are quick-witted and clever are better at recollecting.

If you had access to a run of Book Auction Records, a good shelf full of major dealers' catalogues and (best of all) a retentive memory, you were in a position to make some money as a book scout or "runner", who buys books from one dealer and then sells them on to another.

All the references in the chain had to have a reputation for honesty and possessing a good retentive memory.

But if you wanted to know who those critics were and what they had to say, you would have had to revisit the March article, and you had no way, short of a phenomenally retentive memory, to know that.

He made up for this deficiency by the careful study of documents, by an extraordinarily retentive memory, and by being a shrewd judge of character.

This retentive memory was a gift that came in handy when he became an actor and had to learn reams of dialogue.

We never ceased to be impressed by his encyclopedic mind and retentive memory.

"Time has not yet served to efface your blonde handsomeness from my retentive memory, old keed".

I asked whether he ever got things mixed up, and he said rarely, adding that he thought chess playing had sharpened his naturally retentive memory and gift for organization.