Sentence examples for moving recollection from inspiring English sources

Her story and her moving recollection of it have stayed with me this year.

His most moving recollection came when he recalled Bessie, who died in 1962 when he was 17, telling him, "You are just like me".

Kati Marton's moving recollection of her visit to Miskolc, Hungary, has reinforced the validity of my decision to speak out, after 40 years of silence, about the horrors of the Holocaust.

He has not forgotten time, however, as one sees in the poems in the first of three sections – all sharp and moving recollections of his early life.

More potently moving are the recollections of a physician working at a public hospital in New Orleans during the horrific aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Choking the words out through tears, Ms. Carden recounts the character's tortured recollections with moving intensity.

Montell also presents moving stories like the recollections of a nurse who helped a frail cancer patient achieve his last wish of being baptized.

For remembering (which is the condicio sine qua non of recollecting) is the existence, potentially, in the mind of a movement capable of stimulating it to the desired movement, and this, as has been said, in such a way that the person should be moved (prompted to recollection) from within himself, i.e. in consequence of movements wholly contained within himself.

She described how at her recent citizenship ceremony a string trio played the German national anthem, followed by the European hymn, Beethoven's Ode to Joy. "One man spontaneously started humming and gradually everyone in the room joined in," she said, visibly moved by the recollection.

Among the narrative's many moving passages is Clark's recollection of witnessing the Leonid meteor shower while making one of her seven daily trips for water in 1833.

Gutter's recollections are deeply moving, and his resiliency nothing less than heroic.