The blog is a daily diary of a somewhat anal retentive Fargo native doing ordinary things like dropping his daughter off at school and going to meetings at work, punctuated by .
Golfers tend to be meticulous, and some would say anal retentive, to being with.
Gifted with a sharp, retentive mind and a photographic memory, he also has the innate political cunning of the kingmaker.
Get Lost In These Abstract Maps of the World's Great Cities A city's street plan isn't just the canvas that we paint our lives on—it's a work of art on its own. This is true regardless whether the avenues and thoroughfares were meticulously arranged into an anal-retentive grid, or whether they just, ahem, happened over time as residents sprawled away from the center of town. Read more...
July 24, 2013 - Gizmodo
Henry N. R. Jackman in News1130 I think he's established himself as a great scholar - very quick writer, very retentive mind - and that's his future,Jackman said, adding he has also read Black's biography of another former US president, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Jamie Hyneman in Melbourne Herald Sun Adam is reckless,Hyneman says, "and maybe I'm anally retentive, but Adam's recklessness stores a lot of headlong energy, which is a force to be reckoned with when we're going into a story. It may be p---ing me off when it's happening, but...
Jane Austen in Times Online Jane Austen wrote that "if any faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful that the rest, it is memory. . . the memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so...