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 Warner, Susan

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)

When it is injured, remembrance is impaired; and, on the other hand, an accident has been known to improve the recollective faculties.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

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)