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

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)

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

He possessed perfect conversational tact, with great powers of wit, humour, and all that felicity of allusion, which an uncommonly recollective memory, acting on stores of varied knowledge, can alone command.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 07 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