Like Proust's madeleines, Taylor ham inspires nostalgia and sweet recollections of eating sandwiches while strolling the Atlantic City Boardwalk or savoring leisurely Sunday morning breakfasts prepared by Mom.
Mr. Spessard often receives calls about sweet recollections of a grandmother's reliance on the almanac, as well as angry complaints about a typographical error that might disrupt the spin of the earth.
Yes, my favorite parenting memories involve sharing "Winnie the Pooh" with my daughters, but I have equally sweet recollections of reading aloud to my wife in the years leading up to the kids' arrival — and in the years since they left home.
It is her father's voice that remains with McGill as the sweetest recollection of childhood -- indicative, perhaps, not only of the strength of his "glorious singing and storytelling voice" but of the stewardship black men exercised over their families in the aftermath of slavery.
Of all the photos of us together, one evoked the sweetest recollections.
And then the dandelion wine of Ray Bradbury's sweet childhood recollections got the best of us.
What's sweet about these recollections is that Curtis plainly took a genuine pride in his womanly appearance; even now, the wording ("a very charming manner") retains a feminine correctness that borders on the prim.
Beatrice Kempson did not play a significant role in Ms. Redgrave's life, and gauzy recollections of sweet childhood intimacies are absent.
Her hypothesis was that these people would be especially inclined to "remember" seeing the word "sweet" -- in effect creating a recollection out of a contextual inference, a fact from a feeling.
He began unusually, with four elusive miniatures by Janacek, including "Malostransky Palace," in which nervous ostinato notes interrupt fragmented recollections of some sweet folkloric tune, and "I Am Waiting for You!," in which a singsong melody hovers quizzically over a restless accompaniment until the brief piece suddenly evaporates.
Ezell's friends and neighbors supported this picture with recollections of a sweet boy who became increasingly troubled as he aged.
