This exotic sensation of relaxation is completely unfamiliar – and yet stirs a distant memory of who I used to be.
Puzzling through the vocabulary and sentences is a good way to keep occupied, and stirs an emotional memory of having cared for the subject or issue earlier.
For me the sound stirred a fond childhood memory of old cars backfiring, but to these children the sounds could only be gunshots.
For people of a certain age (I was born in 1958), Clinton's nomination stirred a lot of memories.
The recent grand opening of Story Tavern on San Fernando Boulevard stirred a lot of memories for Les Rosenberg, former owner of Photo Art Shop that was located down the block.
Then he segued into "I Go Back," a nostalgic song about how a tune can stir the memory of a high school romance: "I go back to the feel of a 50-yard line / A blanket, a girl, some raspberry wine".
Still, the best argument for the additional money is that the announcement might serve to stir the memory of a witness in a case that has largely faded from the headlines, even in Seattle.
Those few minutes coming up the driveway to the Vale hotel stir a lot of memories, of both good times and bad.
Cissna, 69, who said the aggressive pat-down also stirred unpleasant memories of a teenage molestation, said she has gotten more than a thousand letters.
Still, the blast stirred dark memories of a devastating August 2009 truck bombing against the Foreign Ministry and Finance Ministry that killed scores of people.
Lawrence Wright's article on Texas, which describes the state legislature moving farther to the right as voter demographics move to the left, stirred up memories of a state I've known and watched evolve since the nineteen-eighties ("The Future Is Texas," July 10th & 17th).
