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

At least if you are as good at making work for yourself in some cases as you are in others,' she said with a queer little recollective gleam in her face.

From Wych Hazel by Warner, Susan

The recollective power is less cultivated than it ought to be, by the usual modes of education: and this is one reason why so few pupils rise above mediocrity.

From Practical Education, Volume II by Edgeworth, Maria

The power of retentive memory is exercised too much, the faculty of recollective memory is exercised too little, by the common modes of education.

From Practical Education, Volume I by Edgeworth, Maria

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 Edgeworth, Maria