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

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 Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus)

Oh! with what a pitying scorn our exact and recollective Frenchwoman used to look down on such an incorrigible scatterbrain! 

From A Walk from London to Fulham by Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William)

"I shall never see you, Reuben,"—said he with a very pleasant recollective play of eye and lip,—"without thinking of a friend."

From Say and Seal, Volume II by Warner, Susan

The power of retentive memory is exercised too much, the faculty of recollective memory is exercised too little, by the common modes of education.

From Practical Education, Volume I by Edgeworth, Maria