Sentence examples for mnemonics from inspiring English sources

But it is struggling to bat away the tomatoes being thrown at it by a sentimental public and a generation of schoolchildren who do not want to create new mnemonics to remember the names of the planets.

A study published in 2006 cracked 4% of the mnemonics in a sample using a dictionary based on song lyrics, film titles and the like.The upshot is that there is probably no right answer.

In totally Kabuki-style pieces, the tsuzumi drums play a style called chirikara after the mnemonics with which the part is learned.

Most early collections (shōhon) of onstage music consisted of the text and samisen mnemonics (kuchi-jamisen, mouth samisen) of instrumental interludes (ai-no-te).

An intuitive realist, primarily concerned with expressive rather than formal values, he developed a kind of visual mnemonics: "the retaining in my minds eye without drawing on the spot whatever I wanted to imitate".

Although many sections of such collections contain only the texts of songs, certain pieces among them parallel the line of words with numbers representing strings on the koto or finger positions on the samisen, names of stereotyped koto patterns, or mnemonics for the particular instrument with which the piece is learned.

Shakuhachi notation varies with each school; however, all are based on mnemonics with which the music is taught.

The difficulty of writing programs in the machine language of 0s and 1s led first to the development of assembly language, which allows programmers to use mnemonics for instructions (e.g., ADD) and symbols for variables (e.g., X).

Fixated on ludicrous methods and mnemonics ("En-Ra-Ha!"), he reveals bilious depths of paranoia, racism and resentment.

In most places in Europe, you can muddle along, comparing words, finding semantic echoes, forming your own mnemonics, picking up threads of conversations around you.

In Happy-Go-Lucky, he knew he wanted to work with the extraordinary Eddie Marsan, who had been in Vera Drake, but neither of them knew he would end up playing the embittered, ranting driving instructor Scott, a breathtakingly intense knot of obsessive dogmas and arcane mnemonics.