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sermon and she became very devout. With exceptional strength of mind, a retentive memory, the mastery of a few religious classics and enforced leisure because...

judgment: "his works, which were the fruits of extensive reading and a retentive memory, are unmethodical and uncritical and marred by want of taste and of...

the detective calls himself "an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles". Looking back on the development of the character in 1912...

command. Hitler guided the steps of their rearmament, thanks to his retentive memory and interest in technical questions. General Alfred Jodl wrote that...

where Crawford attended a grammar school. Gifted with an active and retentive memory, each bit of poetry she heard was remembered, and when but a child...

shame or self-respect, more false of speech, more deceptive, of more retentive memory [and] ... also more wakeful; more shrinking [and] more difficult to...

since people who have no written records to rely on learn to make a retentive memory do the work of libraries." The book's introduction was written by anthropologist...

recruits a young man named Go Yeon-woo (Park Hyung-sik) who has a retentive memory but not a law degree. Jang Dong-gun as Choi Kang-seok A legendary lawyer...

At a very young age Stempel realized he had what he refers to as a "retentive memory", in that he could read a page about a subject and then, months later...

"a compulsive writer - never revising - with an uncannily acute and retentive memory". It has been suggested that Moore's reputation in Belfast for journalistic...

became emotionally unstable. Though very good at subjects that required retentive memory and manual dexterity, Cooke was expelled from Subiaco State School...

bore—with no intellectual invention or agility. He has a childlike retentive memory, and repetition takes the place of thought. He has set himself very...

imparting it, became perfectly familiar, and took its durable place in her retentive memory.[failed verification][full citation needed] Anne Macvicar, was born...

fishing. According to A&E Biography, Burr was an avid reader with a retentive memory. He was also among the earliest importers and breeders of Portuguese...

active and susceptible of deep impressions. He also had a peculiarly retentive memory. By age 14, he was a good English scholar with a considerable knowledge...

of daily life. As an empiricist with a keen political sense and a retentive memory for visual facts, Grooms follows in the tradition of William Hogarth...

the chain had to have a reputation for honesty and possessing a good retentive memory. Thus biographical analysis ('ilm al-rijāl, lit. "science of people")...

application joined to an unusually brilliant mind and an extraordinarily retentive memory, he accumulated such a vast store of knowledge that his contemporaries...

purposes, the Trustees found in Dr. Williams's extensive reading, retentive memory... exact judgment, comprehensive views and philosophical mind, the...

loved from the time she first saw or heard them; and with the aid of a retentive memory, she was able even towards the close of a life prolonged to her eighty-seventh...