Sentence examples for memory contests from inspiring English sources

M ost national memory contests, held in places like Bangkok, Melbourne and Hamburg, bill themselves as mental decathlons.

Joshua Foer finds himself the winner of a memory contest without any prior claims to an exceptional memory.

This ancient mnemonic device was used by orators in Greece and Rome, and is still a trade secret of modern memory-contest champions.

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It is owned by a former Miss Subways, Ellen Hart Sturm (1959), who has helped keep the memory of the contest alive with reunions.

What remained was a kind of decadent residue that occasionally burst to the surface through the remainder of his life, and a shaping memory of the contest between Apollo and Dionysus that also stayed with him for ever.

It is also the costliest among the state's Congressional contests in memory.

And this year, it has offered students a front-row view of one of the tightest presidential contests in memory.

The dispute is now considered one of the nastiest legal contests in memory, a spectacle almost as ugly as the pollution that prompted it.

This contest for memory is a class struggle by other means.

This contest of memory takes me back to when I was writing a memoir of my own service in Vietnam.