recollective
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Mike Nichols' direction and Neil Simon's quip hand are faster than the most jaded playgoer's recollective eye.
From Time Magazine Archive
The place is as pretty as ever, and it was impossible for the most hospitable luxury to do more for me, and with the most minute recollective attention to all my olden-times habits and ways.
From The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 by Augustus J. C. Hare
I mention this because Dugald Stewart once was curious to know what sort of memory I had, whether recollective or retentive.
From The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 by Augustus J. C. Hare
It has often been observed, that a recollective and retentive memory are seldom found united.
From Practical Education, Volume II by Maria Edgeworth
It is astonishingly swift, alive, and leaping; and it delays, as a stream, with great charm, when 277the emotion of the subject is quiet, recollective, or deep.
From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus) Brooke
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