How To Use Retentiveness In A Sentence
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Sahre has catalogued and organized everything about this modest outcropping of homes with an admirable anal retentiveness.
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‘Progress, far from consisting in change,’ said the Spanish sage, ‘depends on retentiveness.’
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… now go wipe, your anal retentiveness is showing …
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There was also a lot of anal-retentiveness on display.
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Without the aid of a swingometer, and feeling a bit low on powers of anal retentiveness today, I would guess that those sorts of swings would wipe out most, if not all, of Labour's Commons majority.
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While I think this is good in the long run (T's anal-retentiveness is generally an admirable trait, but it does mean that it takes us ages to sign any contract for anything), it means that we won't make an offer for a few weeks, at least.
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‘Progress, far from consisting in change,’ said the Spanish sage, ‘depends on retentiveness.’
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Also, is it the height of anal retentiveness to point out that Chaplin's first film appearance wasn't until 1914? kevtron
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Last comes a stage when retentiveness is exhausted and all that happens is at once forgotten; a vain, because unpractical, repetition of the past takes the place of plasticity and fertile readaptation.
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A better aphorism from him, which should be pinned to the wall of every management consultant's office, was "progress, far from consisting in change depends on retentiveness".
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The conservative philosopher, George Santayana, addressed the danger of the lack of em>retentiveness in response to what Leon Edel, Henry James's biographer, referred to as ‘America's cult of impermanence’.
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To read Cook's Illustrated is to see anal retentiveness made into quivering flesh.
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The statement occurs in a discussion of the idea of progress in which Santayana contends that progress is more about retentiveness than about change.
