Retentiveness used in a sentence

Retentiveness in a sentence as a noun

Yet somehow the **** retentiveness of SO is the problem here?

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness.

[Author here]"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness.

This is called ****-retentiveness and is very frequent amongst geeks.

To quote George Satayana who said it best:"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness.

I even in my ****-retentiveness about flights rarely arrive more than an hour and a half early.

Handy if you're right brained, a pack rat, like "messy" workspaces or dislike the ****-retentiveness of Getting Things Done.

It can be a lonely place, plus it's full of arrogance and **** retentiveness and I've never completely fit in with it.

" Which oddly, I was curious about that quote's origins, so I just went and looked it up. The full quote in context is:"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness.

The reason most diets fail isn't that the formula doesn't work, it's that most people don't have the willpower and ****-retentiveness to count calories like that.

I do hear programmers bitching about other compilers and their **** retentiveness though...For me type safety just isn't an issue in practice.

I think this was a very pre-emptive warning about humanity:"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness.

My comment was linking to a page explaining the term ****-retentiveness, which the parent poster clearly isn’t aware of, and is apparently flagged so no one can see it; what are you talking about?

I can kind of understand the CIA's ****-retentiveness here, regarding mundane company-sponsored activities.

The ****-retentiveness required to honestly differentiate between navigating an iphone and an android is ridiculous.

In 1890, William James wrote the following in his 'Principle of Psychology': "In youth, we may have an absolutely new experience, subjective or objective, every hour of the day. Apprehension is vivid, retentiveness strong, and our recollections of that time, like those of a time spent in rapid and interesting travel, are of something intricate, multitudinous and long-drawn outBut each passage year converts some of this experience into automatic routine which we hardly note at all, the days and the weeks smooth themselves out in recollection to contentless units, and the years grow hollow and collapse.