Her body, broken out and mottled, was like a map, one recollective of my attentions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cinnamon Roll] Reference

Essays can do it, recollective meandering can do it, but real narrative does it much, much better.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Narrative Non-Fiction | Spontaneous ∂erivation] Reference

It is not at the pitch of an emotional experience that an artist successfully transmutes his life into art, but in retrospect, when his recollective imagination reproduces his mood in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Facts About Shakespeare] Reference

Dr Moulin believes a circuit in our temporal lobe fires up when we recall the past, creating the experience of remembering but also a 'recollective experience' – the sense of the self in the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: January 29, 2006 - February 4, 2006 Archives] Reference

Throughout, the lyrics are oddly imprecise – every sentence begins with "I must have …" or "I'm pretty sure …" – and it's this vague recollective tone that gives her account a tinge of unreality, even fiction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Could an Abba reunion ever top The Day Before You Came?] Reference

Almost every page pivots about death and memory until even the simplest recollections become reminders that they occur within lives which are dying away and which are held back from oblivion only by the author's fierce recollective hold on them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trouble I've Seen] Reference

Subsequent experiments attempted to elucidate the relationship between experimentally-induced déjà vu and recollective experience responses, suggesting that déjà vu can either be experienced as inappropriate remembering or as excess familiarity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind Hacks: July 2006 Archives] Reference

Martin and Deutscher (1966), developing a causal theory of memory, argued that the past experience itself must have been causally operative in producing (intervening) states which are in turn causally operative in producing the present recollective experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memory] Reference

Thaddeus felt the scene in his own recollective heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thaddeus of Warsaw] Reference

Which was said with a little recollective patient sigh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Say and Seal, Volume II] Reference

Mr. Linden turned, with a laughing, recollective glance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Say and Seal, Volume II] Reference

Faith started with a recollective look and asked what time it was; then sank down again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Say and Seal, Volume II] Reference

"Oh! Marian and I made that all safe," Judy said, with a smile of recollective pleasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Little Australians] Reference

Dewhurst SA, Parry LA (2000) Emotionality, distinctiveness, and recollective experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The mind may, in this process, be simply recollective, although, no doubt, it often also is eminently productive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator.] Reference

I mention this because Dugald Stewart once was curious to know what sort of memory I had, whether recollective or retentive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2] Reference

But in the unstoried solitudes of America, the traveller meets with nothing to awaken the sympathy of his recollective feelings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq. Composed from Materials Furnished by Himself] Reference

It is a meditative poem of recollective tenderness wandering through the past; and no poem written on married love in England is more beautiful.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetry Of Robert Browning] Reference

"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 Wordnik.com.  [Say and Seal, Volume II] Reference

I would call the arrogance that emanates from Messrs. Olbermann and Matthews hypocritical but I'm not sure they have the recollective wherewithal to be that disingenuous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reality Check] Reference

The place is as pretty as ever, and it was impossible for the most hospitable luxury to do more for me, and with the most minute recollective attention to all my olden-times habits and ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2] Reference

It is therefore by the withdrawal of your will from its feverish attachment to things, till "they are under thee and thou not under them," that you will gradually resolve the opposition between the recollective and the active sides of your personality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People] Reference

Thanks to this recollective act, you have discovered in your inmost sanctuary a being not wholly practical, who refuses to be satisfied by your busy life of correspondences with the world of normal men, and hungers for communion with a spiritual universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People] Reference

Perhaps you will find, when you try to achieve this perfect self-abandonment, that a further, more drastic self-exploration, a deeper, more searching purification than that which was forced upon you by your first experience of the recollective state is needed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People] Reference

72In addition to a destination (skopos), picturae provided meditation with a starting point (status) and visual channels (ductus) to convey the mind's eye among the episodes of a depicted narrative. 168 Less significant than where meditation began was how it began: the status could be any image or phrase that adequately stimulated the emotions and triggered the recollective process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference

We adopted the recollective experience paradigm to compare participants’ subjective sensations of recollection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind Hacks: July 2006 Archives] Reference

His two most recent works and those I’m most familiar with, Mulholland Dr. and Inland Empire, convey their narratives not as a series of physical events that transpire from one to the next in an orderly fashion, but as the recollective experiences of their characters as they transpire in their minds and bleed into the real.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference

"A funny little recollective pause Miss Bezac made, her thoughts going back even to the night of the celebration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Say and Seal, Volume II] Reference