Sentence examples for master of memory from inspiring English sources
Thus it is still not clear what the great master of memory should be remembered for.
Called the "international master of memory" in the Mongolian Press, Khatanbaatar has participated in the World Memory Championship himself, and is the best known mental athlete in his home country.
Whereas in the past these chess players might have dreamed of growing up to be Kasparov, master of strategy, now they dream of growing up to be Deep Blue, master of memory.
Cooke's background is in psychology and philosophy, and he holds a distinction as a "Grand Master of Memory".
CREB is often referred to as "the master of memory genes".
There's much more: He co-founded peaceful jazz-funk duo Blank Blue and has collaborated with or produced acts including Omar Rofriguez-Lopez of the Mars Volta, chanteuse Mia Doi Todd, rapper Busdriver and psych-mantra masters Mystic Chords of Memory.
Lloyd-Jones was educated at the Lycée Français in London and at Westminster school, where he received an old-fashioned training in the ancient languages and amazed his masters by his feats of memory.
He knows the entire New Testament by heart, having mastered the Italian "art of memory" (part of the inner world of Renaissance magic that Mantel drew on in her comic novel "Fludd"), in which long lines of speech are fixed in the mind with vivid images.
Mr. Spence has pointed out that Ricci was a master of a special technique of memory: he would imagine for himself a great palace and within it, he would place objects related to items he was trying to memorize; as he mentally strolled through this palace, each item would have its place, come easily to mind and be seen as part of a harmonious order.
It's generally seen as a bad thing if the overall number of cards grows too high: it increases that outlay required to become competitive in the game, makes mastering the game increasingly about feats of memory, and ups the difficulty of managing a collection.
Vladimir Nabokov makes a welcome appearance, with the hilarious opening chapter of his novel Pnin, to confirm his status as the grand master of linguistic dexterity and childhood memory.
