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
Faith started with a recollective look and asked what time it was; then sank down again.
From Say and Seal, Volume II by Susan Warner
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 Maria Edgeworth
This boy, who had such difficulty in learning a single Latin word, by repeating it forty times, showed in other instances, that he was by no means deficient in recollective memory.
From Practical Education, Volume II by Maria Edgeworth
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 Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus) Brooke
