Sentence examples for startling memory from inspiring English sources

He's a savant, with a startling memory that sometimes resembles Dustin Hoffman character's in "Rain Man".

The son of a gas station owner and a schoolteacher, Mr. Motley rose to the heights of the legal profession, displaying a startling memory for detail and an ability to get his ideas across, connecting evidence and courtroom tactics seemingly on the fly.

That's also true of Sinclair: his writing can be an imagistic seance-stream full of startling riffs, memory sifts, domino-effect associationism.

David Zwirner Gallery "Bright Lights, Big City" at David Zwirner in Chelsea is a startling trip down memory lane.

And as I did some startling bits of memory returned to me.

The rate of departures, higher than at any time in memory, is startling in a field where headmasters often spend their entire careers at a single school.

The filmmakers are also creating one of the more startling historical revisions in movie memory.

One of her most startling recent projects is "Forbidden Memory," a book of photographs taken by her father during the Cultural Revolution.

A1 SCIENCE/HEALTH Plants and Genetic Memory In a startling discovery, geneticists at Purdue say they have found plants that possess a corrected version of a defective gene inherited from both their parents, as if some handy backup copy with the right version had been made in the grandparents' generation or earlier.

In a startling digression, Seth airs his memories (which we see in flashback) of a time when he was a little boy and couldn't stop drawing penises.

I try to think of a startling emotional thing that jogs my memory or something that's frightening, or my grandmother's name with 666 at the end.