He said he could not precisely remember his feelings when the Gulf War ended.
The ideas that appear in faculty writing can be attributed to many different, sometimes intangible, avenues, including conversations with colleagues, presentations attended but not precisely remembered, and concepts gleaned from many different sources.
All this has the idiosyncratic ring of precisely remembered truth.
Nor can she remember precisely how she was cast: "I think somebody literally stopped me in the street and said to my mum this little girl will be quite good in the film I am doing".
When zapped twice with laser beams in just the right way, atoms can "remember" precisely what they've done before, physicists report.
Few can remember precisely what this Persian Gulf quarrel is about, but it certainly has generated some media spitballs.
Some Celtic fans can remember precisely where they were when their Old Firm rivals were so humiliated.
THE moment we "discover" a favorite writer is like our experience of a cataclysmic event — we can remember precisely where we were and what we were doing when it occurred.
Even people who claim not to care about Christmas, or to actively hate it, can remember precisely where they were for it; equally, a really fantastic Christmas (usually a childhood one that takes on mythical qualities in retrospect) sticks in your head for all eternity.
No, not many of us can remember precisely where we were on Aug. 8, 1985 (Where Were You?" by Nikki Finke, Feb. 27), but then, not many of us are provided (at public expense) with aides, assistants, secretaries, and press representatives whose duty it is to jot down our every utterance for posterity.
