Sentence examples for memory for slights from inspiring English sources

He's got a good memory for slights.

Even as they watch a parade, they manage to make themselves miserable — their memory for slights felt is far greater than their memory for sights seen.

Mr. Schwarzenegger and his co-writer, Peter Petre, had to brush up on the details of his acting career by reading biographies and movie journals; his memory for slights, triumphs and salaries seems more reliable than his memory for work.

Hockey players have famously long memories for slights and grievances.

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

The eldest son of a wastrel father, who abandoned his young family the moment his wife died, Robespierre was a sensitive, serious boy, with a long memory for personal slights and a fierce compassion for the vulnerable.

The effective alpha female needs to be able to reach out beyond her inner circle, build bridges, groom rivals, all of which comes harder to females than males, who lead more opportunistic political lives, with shorter memories for perceived slights.

In fact, I have been challenged on this subject by several men who insist that women are more jealous than men, bear grudges longer, and can be "vicious psychological warriors" -- meaning they have long memories for perceived slights and don't give up a fight.

Yet memories of slights against a particular group can overcome even economic self-interest.

In healthy controls, LIs were suggestive of slight left lateralization of encoding memory for pictures.

An essential distinction is between memory for facts (semantic memory) and memory for events (episodic memory).