recollective

Example Sentences

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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

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)

It has often been observed, that a recollective and retentive memory are seldom found united.

From Practical Education, Volume II by Edgeworth, Maria

In this instance, it is obvious that we admire the retentive, local memory of Dr. Heberden, merely because it became recollective and useful.

From Practical Education, Volume II by Edgeworth, Maria

It is a 250meditative poem of recollective tenderness wandering through the past; and no poem written on married love in England is more beautiful.

From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus)