Sentence examples for powers of recollection from inspiring English sources

Pico's prodigious powers of recollection are legendary.

But his eye for detail was exact and his powers of recollection extraordinary.

We've made a quiz with various questions about the film, to see how good your powers of recollection are.

He wonders if his powers of recollection or his ability to avoid repeating himself might be slackening.

He was prolific into his 90's, and his powers of recollection served him well, especially when retelling stories from his grandfather, who served in the Civil War.

So it is now the lot of the younger woman, who has been unable to hold onto a job or a relationship, to move back in with Mom, whose powers of recollection and speech are fast deteriorating.

"I passed entire days tracking the course of a single dust mote across the basement," she recounts with the kind of exacting, enhanced power of recollection that colors the book.

In particular, he summons his youth (he was born in 1942) and those who were close to him then family, friends, neighbors, teachers with a wealth of detail that is at once a tribute to the vigorous fullness with which he has lived and to his power of perception, recollection, and description.

What distinguishes humans from the animals is not their possession of non-natural powers either of reason or volition, but the fact that human beings are "absolute sensualists" whose powers of observation and recollection extend to the whole of nature.

Maybe for a second there was a glimmer of recollection.

Since an act of recollection is the renewal of a past experience, all recollection is necessarily anchored in the world and body dyad.