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

"Are you not aware of any class of recollective remarks or inquiries which now and then break forth, and which you invariably smother with a thick blanket of silence?"

From Say and Seal, Volume II by Warner, Susan

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)

Mr. Linden turned, with a laughing, recollective glance— "Who speaks slightingly of the midge?—let him have a dose of syrup of poppies!"

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