retentiveness
Example Sentences
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But it's time we retire this notion of Wooden as basketball's wise old man and see his legacy for what it is: a triumph of rigidity, bureaucracy, paternalism, and anal retentiveness.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2010
It was a wonderful display of retentiveness, acumen, learning, and power.
From Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage by Pleasant A. Stovall
Miss Hurd, whose feelings had not been in the least lacerated by the reference to her parent's notable eccentricity of retentiveness, but who had been amused at the suggestion, interposed.
From White Ashes by Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson) Kennedy
Several times, with that uncanny retentiveness of memory developed in the blind, she had all but caught him; but each time his adroitness saved the day.
From Success A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams
This gives what may be called the quality of native retentiveness to the individual.
From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by William James
