"tenacious memory" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe something or someone that has a strong or retentive memory, such as, "Henry has a tenacious memory and can remember even the most minute details."
Perhaps he had some schoolboy memory of Cicero's 'De Amicitia,' or he may have picked up echoes of it in other authors — he clearly had a capacious and tenacious memory.
Writer tells about Blind tom, an African-American autistic musical prodigy of the 19th century, as well as about Jedediah Buxton, a simpleminded laborer who had a tenacious memory.
As a boy, the author spent a great deal of time with Barney who, although illiterate, had a tenacious memory and loved to discuss the family's ancestry, along with religion, politics, and philosophy.
The words are identical each time, but the music shifts exquisitely beneath every avowal, evoking a kaleidoscopic range of feelings: tenacious memories of love mixed with anger at its dissolution; defiance toward her noble suitor tinged with the first stirrings of temptation.
The usage of low-k AlOx as a charge-trap layer allowed us to demonstrate a high-performance memory device, exhibiting a large memory window of ∼9.2 V and a tenacious retention of the memory window margin up to ∼57% after 10 years.
Boston has a tenacious cultural memory.
She has absolute pitch, she added (this is normally very rare, but is relatively common in people with autism), and a precise and tenacious musical memory, but, on the whole, music fails to move her.
"His memory was so tenacious," Boswell writes in his great biography, "that he never forgot anything that he either heard or read.
When growth switches off All in a tangle ReprintsNothing if not tenacious, the chaebol continue to build memory-chip fabs in the hope of a PC boom, spending a cool $8 billion in this way last year alone.
"She felt that her musical memory, her musical imagery, had become stronger, more tenacious, but also more flexible, so that she could hold the most complex music in her mind, then rearrange it and replay it mentally, in a way that would have been impossible before," Sacks writes.
He is old enough to have Allan Border, another tenacious left-hander, as his childhood hero and his favourite Ashes memory is Shane Warne's ball to Mike Gatting in 1993.
