The phrase "almost recalls" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to express that something nearly brings to mind a memory or an idea, but not quite fully.
Example: "The melody of the song almost recalls the tune I used to hear in my childhood."
Alternatives: "nearly reminds" or "almost evokes".
The situation almost recalls a memorable scene from "Lord of the Flies," in which a storm-tossed choir sings "Kyrie eleison" in procession on a beach, but the photography here has the color cranked way up, and a plummy, National Geographic-style voice-over pours forth platitudes and edifying narration.
The trumpeter Steven Bernstein's quintet Sex Mob is a stylish jazz-funk party band whose flighty crashes and shrewd creepings possess a sense of fun that almost recalls New York in the early 80's, when the far-out met the rootsy and groups like Olu Dara's and Jabbo Ware's ruled the roost.
Sex Mob, the trumpeter Steven Bernstein's quintet, is a stylish jazz-funk party band whose flighty crashes possess a sense of fun that almost recalls New York in the early 80's, when avant-gutbucket groups like Olu Dara's and Jabbo Ware's ruled the roost.
There is a striking shape, almost recalling Picasso, when women are lifted and folded into an assemblage of body parts.
With hearty, meal-size soups for 81 to 114 koruny, the prices almost recall the dirty post-commie era.
"& Sons " conjures a career's worth of drool-worthy fictional fiction that's so convincingly evoked, I almost recall writing a paper on it in freshman English class.
In between run roads whose steep grades and closely packed wood-frame houses, with jutting bay windows and stoops, almost recall San Francisco's.
With Ryan Wigglesworth conducting the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, her performance had drive, wit and glittering precision, almost recalling Ravel's G major concerto refracted through another 60 years of musical history.
Exploring the formal properties of the human body, the artist's works almost recall Robert Mapplethorpe's nudes or Asger Carlsen's digitally manipulated bodily constructs.
Fortunately, it has survived on his CBC Radio 3 profile (complete with one of the worst photographs I've ever seen, a mish-mash of Photoshop filters that almost recall the visual effects from Repo Man).
Almost all recalls in the United States — and there were 151 last year alone — take place in "political recall" jurisdictions.
