exercise of memory
Example Sentences
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To perform them in a single staged performance is an exercise of memory and sheer will.
From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2023
Another interim occurred, an interim occupied by things which are nobody's business and which anybody who has ever been in love can supply ad lib by exercise of memory and imagination.
From Wild Wings A Romance of Youth by Piper, Margaret Rebecca
My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory.
From Autobiography by Mill, John Stuart
They, no doubt, injured those who accepted the husks they proffered for bread, and believed that exercise of memory was study, and to know what others knew, was the object of study.
From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I by Fuller, Margaret
His discernment or judgment is a spontaneous exercise of memory, and resembles the chess-playing skill of one who plays a gambit.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various
