Sentence examples for an elephantine memory from inspiring English sources

But she has an elephantine memory for such things and truly doesn't recall it.

My biggest sin is that I have an elephantine memory – I remembered far back, and I didn't forget his talents".

Mrs. Beck brought an august intellectual heritage, an elephantine memory and bristling energy to refining, enlarging and, sometimes, subtracting from a reference book that few libraries are without.

The immediate effect of Miles's decision to read Jesus "biographically" as God incarnate is that Jesus is furnished with a two-thousand-year past, an elephantine memory, and a lot of explaining to do.

This, however, disguises some ugly emotional truths, as she conveys the despair of a bereaved parent in "Little Life" ("Can you tell me why this little life goes so fast?"), and in the title track employs an extended metaphor about the painful memories accumulated in an elephantine memory: "How dare you send me that card?.

One such fan with an elephantine memory pointed out on Reddit today that it is exactly 20 years since Julia Roberts' character Susie Moss told Chandler: "Why don't you call me in 20 years and tell me if you're still upset about this".

Children have long memories, and my daughter seems to have an elephantine retention of the details leading up to the breakup of my marriage.

With our elephantine memory for details, slights, and an encyclopaedic knowledge of our partner's previous transgressions, we attack without mercy.

She can also vouch for his "emotional intelligence," "capacious mind," "elephantine memory," "preternatural aesthetic sense," "talent as a consummate diplomat," and "independent spirit".

McElwee ducked out of work and returned to the water on Wednesday, bringing with him his elephantine memory for all things related to Cayuga Lake fish.

And could it be that Ferguson's elephantine memory still recalls those uncertain days in 2010 when Rooney uttered the truth that dare not speak its name at Old Trafford, or to his manager, when he appeared to question the club's ambition and the quality of his colleagues?