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)

"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

Judy said, with a smile of recollective pleasure.

From Seven Little Australians by Turner, Ethel Sybil

A funny little recollective pause Miss Bezac made, her thoughts going back even to the night of the celebration.

From Say and Seal, Volume II by Warner, Susan