MANY people can recite verbatim the television jingles of their youth.
He can recite, verbatim, the scene in "The Godfather, Part I," where Clemenza tells Michael Corleone the essential ingredient for great tomato sauce.
Ask any one of my friends today, 25 years later, who were in that class and we can all recite, verbatim, that assignment: Write on the following thought.
On the day when the assignment was due, we were called upon to recite, verbatim, the meaning and derivation of any word she called out to us.
Over the centuries, Chinese bureaucrats perfected the dark arts of emptiness to such an extent that when they deliver speeches these days, they often recite verbatim speeches that they have previously delivered, with the sparest of adjustments.
It was said that he played practical jokes on Einstein, could recite verbatim books that he had read years earlier, and could edit assembly-language computer code in his head.
He can recite verbatim the rapid-fire spiel he delivered a quarter of a century ago, when he was briefly employed as a carnival barker: "See the magician; the fire 'manipulator'; the girl with the yellow e-e-elastic tissue.
Many sci-fi fans can recite verbatim Roy's closing speech from the end of Blade Runner: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe … All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
