Sentence examples for Distant recollection from inspiring English sources

In a sense, children of immigrant parents always have to fictionalize their parents' stories, to construct them from shreds of knowledge and distant recollection.

All this is somewhat similar the composition — albeit, a landscape — described in "Skin," Dahl's most striking work about art, which was first published, in the pages of The New Yorker, in 1952: He checked, and looked back; and now, suddenly, there came to him a slight uneasiness, a movement of the memory, a distant recollection of something, somewhere, he had seen before.

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They added that Booth's Darren is a "very distant recollection" while Dawson has "made the part his own in such a big way that we've decided to wipe the other one from history".

Yahaira, a 15-year-old Dominican, chants: Distant recollections of a daffodil at midnight she knows she ain't got no business in the street but she makes her own heat to fend off the cold fronts.

Buried within it is the massacre at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps of West Beirut, in 1982, but much of the movie is composed of dreams and distant recollections, as Folman — who was serving in the Israel Defense Forces at the time — questions his former colleagues and slowly feels his way toward the horror.

He entitles his section on Manhattan "Third World," and he leaves us feeling that the history he has set down here will not necessarily feature in our distant cultural recollections but may rather be history — the thing itself — come for us at last.

Among those in attendance were Assemblyman Mike Gatto and his staff advisor Stacey Brenner, John and Mary Jo Hjelmstrom, Paul, Taylor and Ashley Akard, Greg and Gavin Rogers and former Burbank Leader contributor Marc Yablonka who authored the book "Distant War: Recollections of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia" (Merriam Press, 2009).

The distant future and recollections of a happier past are forever tugging them away from thoughts of the present, lending the characters an almost ethereal quality.

This lends some support to earlier work which suggests that recollection of distant memories involves activation along the entire front-to-back extent of the hippocampus and that retrieval of the most distant memories is more dependent on activity at the front end.

The Rajasthan sequence, lit by fires burning in tree trunks, is presented like a recollection of a distant Edenic past.