'reminds' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that causes someone to remember or think of something. For example: Seeing him made me smile; it reminds me of our childhood.
Like Pride, it makes the political personal, and reminds us that the choice is actually in our hands.
"They told him: 'We have a programme for vulnerable women, but not men.'" It reminds me of a scene described by Eunice Owiny: "There is a married couple," she said.
His selection of Andy Carroll was justified with the opening goal and, though Olof Mellberg's double reminds us this is still very much a work in progress, England have put themselves in a position of strength going into their final game in Donetsk on Tuesday.
Robin Ince, comedian Well, that reminds me that success is not a meritocracy, that a degree of randomness is involved and that I'm lucky doing standup at a point where it became this thing that people were into.
The simple eloquence of that vulnerable foot in its scuffed shoe reminds me of the profound eloquence of the cow's eye, the photograph with which Jane discovered her calling all those years ago as a student just out of the Wrens, alone and unsure of where life would take her.
Cody almost purrs when I tell her that Jennifer's Body reminds me in small ways of Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World.
The scene reminds me of sitting around a table of craftsmen spliff builders, all nerdily discussing hydroponics, sativa strains and THC levels.
Related: Premier League fans' verdicts part 2: Manchester United to West Ham Falcao's decline has been so difficult on the eye that he is now attracting the one thing no footballer ever wants – pity – and there are people at Old Trafford who have started talking about his inadequacies in a way that reminds me of how Alvy Singer, Woody Allen's character, used to excuse Annie Hall's erratic parking.
He reminds the audience of the importance of voting.
Last year, Yawuru elder and National Museum council member Peter Yu told me, "It would become like a beacon of conscience, where it reminds us of the importance of history and what we can do to each other, but where we can learn from what we've done to each other.
It reminds me of the difference in tactics between Outrage – fans of direct action against, for example, bishops – and Stonewall, keener to make quiet political alliances in the service of long-term change.
