concentrative
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We shall give you a practical working knowledge of concentrative mental methods and devices.
From Psychology and Achievement Being the First of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency by Warren Hilton
After some time, however, Woodward's glance seemed to lose its concentrative power, and gradually to become vague and blank.
From The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton
Her nature was a concentrative one, and unsusceptible withal.
From Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West by Bertram Mitford
Burns's powers were concentrative, and he could put into a song what a dramatist might elaborate into a five-act tragedy; but that is not to say that the dramatist is the greater poet.
From Robert Burns Famous Scots Series by Gabriel Setoun
At all events, that concentrative, synthetical power, that takes in surrounding objects at a single glance, and retains them in a tolerably distinct classification, is rather enviable, even as a mental accomplishment.
From Border and Bastille by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence
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