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

But in the unstoried solitudes of America, the traveller meets with nothing to awaken the sympathy of his recollective feelings.

From The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq. Composed from Materials Furnished by Himself by Galt, John

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 Hare, Augustus J. C.

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

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)