retentiveness

The similarities in retentiveness among the three material groups are important.

Later they used subsets of the data to assess its retentiveness and reconstructability.

My staff calls me all sorts of colorful names having to do with anal retentiveness".

During a one-year storage time in water or artificial saliva, the retentiveness did not decrease.

The combination permits greater retentiveness and a high-pressure flow.

He played his cards with great anal retentiveness.

Her Virgoan anal retentiveness had been channeled into positive trips.

Instead, the retentiveness of the samples increased.

An evidence of the retentiveness of Mozart's memory.

The character herself refers to her "quirks" in terms of anal retentiveness but Rex once mentioned it by the name.

Cicero tells us that he was remarkable for his eloquence and for the great extent and retentiveness of his memory.

The use of sandblasting under the conditions given in this study does not enhance the internal surface roughness or the retentiveness of the Denzir copings.

As regarded novelties (among which cabs and omnibuses were to be reckoned), his mind appeared to have lost its proper gripe and retentiveness.

Ichiro tried to teach me to read and write, my general lack of skill and retentiveness enraging him, while he reluctantly pursued the idea of adoption.

Such incredible convenience can breed excess, like this: "Provocative thesauruses are rampant programs with verbalization systems in these days of greater congenital retentiveness and licentious, prodigal hard disks."

Ms. Klein's retentiveness is of clinical interest, and so is her humor: "We'll keep you informed," says a sign printed in white sans-serif type on a mottled black ground.

Many books which my more ardent academic colleagues (and I too at the time) might have cheerfully consigned to the dustbin have been saved by the splendid professional retentiveness of librarians.

Kessler has written a book on "The Significance of Word Lists while McMahon and McMahon carried out studies on the effects of reconstructability and retentiveness.

I do not deny that some very good results have been reached by the oral method, and especially so in cases of those children possessing the natural quickness of observation and retentiveness of memory which this method requires.

Though the curator admits to no purpose beyond that of highlighting "a few of the many wonders" in the registry, the work that he has chosen is nothing if not a la mode in its air of mystification and implications of retentiveness.

"Given the number of years that have flowed under the bridge since your precious Franklin, I think anyone who doesn't have more than a trace of anal retentiveness in his nature is doing remarkably well to remember him at all," William told him.

Greg thought he was going to fail in his object, and began to close the door, but suddenly, as if to prove the retentiveness of his painter's eye, Hilary turned round again to him, took a good look, and said: 'Weren't you the chap that was at the funeral?

Precisely as some human experience increases wariness, caution, which keying up of qualities remains with us after the experience has passed, and fades away in the ratio of our sensitivity plus retentiveness divided by the time elapsing from the original experience - exactly as it is in the iron."