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  • Reminiscent of the first day of junior year, people stared and whispered as I walked past.†   (source)
  • Her grandfather kills his unfaithful wife and himself in a manner strongly reminiscent of Othello.†   (source)
  • He said that Barre was on the road north, a stonecutter's town where Italians years ago had come to work on the quarries, reminiscent of Blount, and it might be interesting to visit there.†   (source)
  • The illness that swept them now was reminiscent of the one that had killed half their number two hundred years earlier.†   (source)
  • In school, everybody wore brown arm bands again, reminiscent of Miguel's death, John Fabela's and others'.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Livingston smiles at the inflections in Harriet's voice, so reminiscent of Yetta's accent, so clearly an imitation of Mr. and Mrs. Blanck.†   (source)
  • I scribble Nathaniel's musings in my spiral notebook, trying to keep up with a running soliloquy that is somewhat reminiscent of Joseph Mitchell's Professor Sea Gull character.†   (source)
  • His beard and pince-nez were reminiscent of Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, who lived in Paris at the same time and was only ten years younger.†   (source)
  • The whole notion was kept deliberately hazy—in fact, it was pretty reminiscent of the way we'd dealt with sex at Hailsham.†   (source)
  • It is all very reminiscent of Plato's distinction between the concrete world of the senses and the immutable world of ideas.†   (source)
  • Doctor Gordon leaned back in his chair, staring into the air over my shoulder with a reminiscent smile.†   (source)
  • Somehow I felt like a fifteen-year-old girl again, because the feeling was so strangely reminiscent of Dr. Crab.†   (source)
  • The confusion that ensued when I explained to my stepfather that I expected to deliver the baby in three weeks, more or less, was reminiscent of a Molière comedy.†   (source)
  • He rubbed his nose reminiscently and his cheek gave a small tic, the way it had when he made his confession about getting the rubber wrong the first time.†   (source)
  • Her voice softened reminiscently.†   (source)
  • And as he slowed to a stop before her, Nasuada noticed that a certain odor surrounded him: a salty musk reminiscent of dry juniper wood, oiled leather, and smoke.†   (source)
  • The hangman coughed-impatiently lifted his cowboy hat and settled it again, a gesture somehow reminiscent of a turkey buzzard huffing, then smoothing its neck feathers-and Hickock, nudged by an attendant, mounted the scaffold steps.†   (source)
  • The effect is reminiscent of a nun's habit in times past.†   (source)
  • It is, as Bruner and Joan Lucariello write in their commentary on the segment, a remarkable act of world making… she uses tonal emphasis, prolongation of key words, and a kind of "reenactment" reminiscent of the we-are-there cinema verite (with her friend Carl practically narrated through the door as he enters).†   (source)
  • "Virge was a great beau in his day," continued Pap, reminiscently.†   (source)
  • There seemed to be a cavernous echo behind him, reminiscent of an airport.†   (source)
  • The smell was still distinct, completely reminiscent of his Soviet experience, only less farshtinkener than his personal output, a bit toned down, and it was not coming from a sewer main break or a communal toilet of the homeless.†   (source)
  • Inside the smoky building, where an act reminiscent of The Rocky Horror Picture Show was being performed on the stage, Kelley and Stephanie located Heath Vance standing with several buddies.†   (source)
  • Living off beans, however, is reminiscent of a more slang culture, realistic, and a lower class, which is indicative of both the speaker in the song and the music that accompanies it.†   (source)
  • The syringe filled with a liquid—purple in color, and iridescent, reminiscent of that strange color his eyes changed whenever he touched a glyph—and D'Ablo boiled over with cruel, joyous laughter.†   (source)
  • THE STREET HAD A JUNKYARD at the corner with high walls and barbed wire so reminiscent of Kerchele Prison.†   (source)
  • Bedding, furniture, even their tents were all eerily reminiscent of the Horde way, though notably colored and spiced with Forest Dweller tastes.†   (source)
  • It was Monterrey's oldest hotel, built before the Mexican Revolution; its opulence was reminiscent of the colonial period of great excesses.†   (source)
  • My left arm is a short stub with a small hand and three fingers, reminiscent of a thalidomide defect.†   (source)
  • The smell—and taste—was reminiscent of sweaty boots.†   (source)
  • The walls were covered with red velour; the sturdy furniture was reminiscent of the ancien régime.†   (source)
  • And thus the morning of his departure there was much that was reminiscent of other days as he bid goodbye, heading off again with a single servant, John Briesler.†   (source)
  • Although the forest was not as dense and primeval as the vast stands of pine and spruce and fir on the fog-robed mountains looming to the west, civilization was so far removed that the soulful hush was reminiscent of a cathedral between services.†   (source)
  • He said, reminiscently: 'A while ago there used to be a dive down on the waterfront in Rigo.†   (source)
  • This provides our guests with a safe haven and a variety of habitats reminiscent of their homes.†   (source)
  • Just totally bizarre stuff, which was what made it reminiscent of the Ole Miss game from the previous year.†   (source)
  • The interior of the bar had once been stylishly decorated, with pressed-tin walls and ceiling, reminiscent of an old speakeasy, and frosted art deco glass behind the bar.†   (source)
  • The New York Tribune called him "a bold and courageous man reminiscent of Othello, proud, intelligent-looking, and of noble bearing."†   (source)
  • The heavy sweetness of the odor was reminiscent of the time I was stationed in Burma during the war, when some of my comrades would hang certain giant leaves to dry and then cut them up to smoke.†   (source)
  • With three or four guns launching a shell a minute, the concussions and echoes were reminiscent of the pounding of a rain-swollen falls.†   (source)
  • At once poignant and reminiscent of Southern Sundays, it also unnerved me a little, since I had the firm impression that synagogues did not come equipped with belfries.†   (source)
  • He moved with a strange gait reminiscent to me of something I couldn't place.†   (source)
  • A literal translation is reminiscent of Yellowstone Park: "Warning—the varmints in these woods are not tame.†   (source)
  • Then he had lain by her side, and Kamala's face had been close to him, and under her eyes and next to the corners of her mouth he had, as clearly as never before, read a fearful inscription, an inscription of small lines, of slight grooves, an inscription reminiscent of autumn and old age, just as Siddhartha himself, who was only in his forties, had already noticed, here and there, gray hairs among his black ones.†   (source)
  • MARY In a detached reminiscent tone.†   (source)
  • As the Embargo Bill, with his help, became law, a storm of protest arose in Massachusetts reminiscent of the days of the Boston Tea Party.†   (source)
  • A reminiscent tone came into his voice which seemed to put the silent thin young man on his guard.†   (source)
  • "Oh, that one had a great vogue during my time at Hogwarts," said Lupin reminiscently.†   (source)
  • He went mental," said Ron, with a reminiscent gleam in his eyes.†   (source)
  • 'Yeah,' said Harry, watching uncomprehendingly as Sirius and Lupin beamed reminiscently.†   (source)
  • 'Kenneth Towler came out in boils, d'you remember?' said Fred reminiscently.†   (source)
  • It's a great feeling when you take it," said Ron reminiscently.†   (source)
  • 'I ain't been with a woman for about four years, I guess,' Gary said reminiscently.†   (source)
  • It was a clumsy effort, reminiscent of high school, and she recoiled before he could finish.†   (source)
  • She smiles a pensive, reminiscent smile.†   (source)
  • The dichotomy was reminiscent of the religion Thomas vaguely remembered from his dreams.†   (source)
  • Before long we found ourselves in a routine that was deliciously reminiscent of our courtship years.†   (source)
  • Talk of borrowing things brought a reminiscent flush to her cheek.†   (source)
  • In the foreground was a sailboat, reminiscent of our home in Alpena.†   (source)
  • The petrified man just sat there moving his quarter of an inch though," said Leota reminiscently.†   (source)
  • Directly in front of the car, the Lincoln Memorial rose with rigid austerity, its orthogonal lines reminiscent of Athens's ancient Parthenon.†   (source)
  • It was vaguely reminiscent of the space shuttle except that the top had been shaved off, leaving it perfectly flat.†   (source)
  • Beside this is a matching engraving of James McDermott, shown in the overblown collar of those days, with his hair in a forward-swept arrangement reminiscent of Napoleon's, and meant to suggest tempestuousness.†   (source)
  • Before showing it to me he thumbs through it, contemplative, reminiscent; then, "Here," he says, laying it open on the desk in front of me.†   (source)
  • 'And Wood told you not to be a gentleman and knock me off my broom if you had to,' said Cho, smiling reminiscently.†   (source)
  • When I let Popchyk loose, he stooped to pat his head, in a posture reminiscent of a lanky cowboy by the campfire.†   (source)
  • The architecture was coarse and simple, more reminiscent of Rome's rugged Castel Sant'Angelo than the refined Pantheon.†   (source)
  • Up they wound three flights to where a door opened on a narrow corridor servicing a bathroom and six bedrooms reminiscent of monastic cells.†   (source)
  • Kierkegaard's description of this 'category of decision' can be somewhat reminiscent of Socrates' view that all true insight comes from within.†   (source)
  • But as the Count was about to open the door to his rooms, on the back of his neck he felt a breath of air that was distinctly reminiscent of a summer breeze.†   (source)
  • He was a big, handsome guy from the Dominican Republic, something about him reminiscent of the young Muhammad Ali—sweet-tempered, always kidding around, but you didn't want to mess with him.†   (source)
  • With vaulted ceilings and dark red walls reminiscent of a boyar's retreat, the Boyarsky boasted the city's most elegant decor, its most sophisticated waitstaff, and its most subtle chef de cuisine.†   (source)
  • Rather, he slightly extended his index finger in a manner reminiscent of that gesture on the Sistine Chapel's ceiling with which the Prime Mover transmitted the spark of life.†   (source)
  • The stairs ended, and he emerged into a high-vaulted chamber reminiscent of the cathedral in Dras-Leona.†   (source)
  • In addition, the Patriot Act was a center of controversy, also eerily reminiscent of the McCarthy era.†   (source)
  • If anything, it was reminiscent of motels the world over that blighted the outskirts of cities; commerciality guaranteeing the anonymity of their guests.†   (source)
  • The opposite sides of the screen, those facing into the room, are of a dark green plush reminiscent of the forest behind our home.†   (source)
  • A painting by Allie—a flowering pond and garden scene reminiscent of Monet—hung on the wall above his rocking chair.†   (source)
  • Max had time to catch a star and several strange symbols that were reminiscent of an illustration he had seen in the Conjuror's Codex, but he dared not look closer.†   (source)
  • The style of the sculpture seemed reminiscent of the Anavyssos kouros in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, meaning that it seemed to fit with a particular time and place.†   (source)
  • And as he sang, Max watched the giant's shadow flickering upon the cavern wall, its monstrous horns and size so horribly reminiscent of Prusias.†   (source)
  • 'This was a bit too reminiscent of the ground I'd been forced to cover during my first (and hopefully only) therapy session a few weeks earlier, so instead of responding, I stepped inside.†   (source)
  • In the morning light, the entire city seemed a sculpture, a smooth array of strange volumes and shadows, grand shapes that melted into one another at surprising junctions to form complex geometries or bizarre, organic shapes reminiscent of sea life.†   (source)
  • He is wearing a richly worked gold and red oriental costume reminiscent of Balthazar's in Jan Gossaert's Adoration of the Magi, but without the crown and scarf.†   (source)
  • When we arrived, the scene in the emergency room was reminiscent of this spring, after Noah had his stroke, as if nothing had changed in the previous four months.†   (source)
  • Roran frowned at the stone resting on his palm in a pose so reminiscent of Eragon's own training that Eragon could not help feeling a flash of nostalgia for the days he spent being drilled by Brom.†   (source)
  • The kids really missed their daddy, and while the circumstance was completely different from that of Janice's childhood, the situation of a missing parent was still sadly reminiscent of work taking precedence over family.†   (source)
  • This is reminiscent of Schooler's experiments that I described in the Van Riper story, in which introspection destroyed people's ability to solve insight problems.†   (source)
  • The structure was reminiscent of an early rocket gantry as built back when Cape Kennedy had been called Cape Canaveral, the spacecraft gone now and the architecture surrounding a curious void.†   (source)
  • With an ear for contemporary melodies and a voice reminiscent of Nat King Cole's, Peterson could perform any song requested and did well enough to perform in restaurants as far-flung as Atlanta, Charlotte, and Washington, D.C. Jane could spend hours listening to him, and I know Peterson was touched by her almost motherly pride in him.†   (source)
  • Her lips formed themselves into tender, reminiscent half-smiles as she went over the few and brief moments of her three interviews with Stoddard.†   (source)
  • Into it, a priest deposited the hilt of a bizarre implement: a single-edged weapon, two and a half feet long, with a full tang, scale grips, a vestigial crossguard, and a broad, flat blade that widened and was scalloped near the end, a shape reminiscent of a dragon wing.†   (source)
  • Upon our arrival at the shah's villa, we found it predictably gutted of anything reminiscent of western culture, most particularly furniture.†   (source)
  • But it is doubtful that even a feast reminiscent of Boston's finest inns would have made his attendance worth while—for this was regarded by his Federalist friends as the final proof of perfidy.†   (source)
  • I listened to Nathan's voice behind me, high now, hectoring, reminiscent of that of a squat, half-hysteric Communist youth organizer with a mouth like a torn pocket I had once heard screaming up at the empty empyrean over Union Square.†   (source)
  • 'It was a good hanging,' said Syme reminiscently.†   (source)
  • (Drinking coffee, reminiscent) Aya —people are meant to live two-by-two in this world.†   (source)
  • Isn't war the grand thing," he observed reminiscently.†   (source)
  • 'The 'Ouse of Lords,' put in the old man reminiscently.†   (source)
  • He starts his story, his tone again becoming musingly reminiscent.†   (source)
  • (He chuckles—reminiscently) Reminds me of damn fool argument me and Mose Porter has de udder night.†   (source)
  • In the second car, which lacked our quiet elegance reminiscent of a cross between a hearse and an ocean liner but which still wouldn't make your cheeks burn with shame in the country-club parking lot, there were some reporters and a photographer and Sadie Burke, the Boss's secretary, to see they got there sober enough to do what they were supposed to do.†   (source)
  • And those curious secrets he had gleaned long ago from his mother's story seemed submerged within him and were met only at reminiscent street-corners among houses or in the brain.†   (source)
  • "What do you mean by the three-fold theme in "William Tell'?" says Kropp reminiscently, and roars with laughter.†   (source)
  • Rutherford paused reminiscently and then continued: "As you can imagine, we renewed our old friendship on the ship.†   (source)
  • A queasiness of the stomach reminiscent of the early days of her pregnancy made the smoking yams on the breakfast table unendurable, even to the smell.†   (source)
  • It is curious,' murmured Poirot reminiscently, 'that I should have uttered a wish to work against the law just before Lady Millicent arrived!†   (source)
  • The ineffable teaching of the beatitude beyond imagination comes to us clothed, necessarily, in figures reminiscent of the imagined beatitude of infancy; hence the deceptive childishness of the tales.†   (source)
  • He grinned reminiscently.†   (source)
  • He becomes reminiscently melancholy.†   (source)
  • He chuckles reminiscently.†   (source)
  • Her lips broke into a reminiscent smile.†   (source)
  • Mr. Pontellier warmed up and grew reminiscent.†   (source)
  • To sane people she is not reminiscent of any work of art.†   (source)
  • Most of the castles of the testy Victorian tetrarchs are gone now or decayed into boarding-houses, but the Eathorne Mansion remains virtuous and aloof, reminiscent of London, Back Bay, Rittenhouse Square.†   (source)
  • And Dr. Krokowski had spoken about one fungus, famous since classical antiquity for its form and the powers ascribed to it—a morel, its Latin name ending in the adjective impudicus, its form reminiscent of love, and its odor, of death.†   (source)
  • …city over the mountains Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air Falling towers Jerusalem Athens Alexandria Vienna London Unreal A woman drew her long black hair out tight And fiddled whisper music on those strings And bats with baby faces in the violet light Whistled, and beat their wings And crawled head downward down a blackened wall And upside down in air were towers Tolling reminiscent bells, that kept the hours And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.†   (source)
  • "At the court of the Tuileries," said Mr. Sillerton Jackson with his reminiscent smile, "such things were pretty openly tolerated."†   (source)
  • His voice became soft and reminiscent, and with a sigh of contentment he launched into a long rambling talk, speaking as one lost in a dream.†   (source)
  • "He's looked that way ever since he had his smash-up; and that's twenty-four years ago come next February," Harmon threw out between reminiscent pauses.†   (source)
  • A delicate pathos perfumed her disconnected remarks, giving them unexpected beauty, just as in the decaying autumn woods there sometimes rise odours reminiscent of spring.†   (source)
  • This feeling was surcharged by listening to the sad tunes of the orchestra, reminiscent of the melancholy music played for acrobats in vaudeville.†   (source)
  • She fed him sections of the "Fetes Galantes" before he was ten; at eleven he could talk glibly, if rather reminiscently, of Brahms and Mozart and Beethoven.†   (source)
  • Of these older people many wear clothing reminiscent in some detail of home—an embroidered waistcoat or stomacher, or a gaily colored handkerchief, or a coat with large cuffs and fancy buttons.†   (source)
  • Doane warmed up and became reminiscent.†   (source)
  • The Lannings survived only in the person of two very old but lively Miss Lannings, who lived cheerfully and reminiscently among family portraits and Chippendale; the Dagonets were a considerable clan, allied to the best names in Baltimore and Philadelphia; but the van der Luydens, who stood above all of them, had faded into a kind of super-terrestrial twilight, from which only two figures impressively emerged; those of Mr. and Mrs. Henry van der Luyden.†   (source)
  • Summer was ending, and the evening brought her odours of decay, the more pathetic because they were reminiscent of spring.†   (source)
  • Her face, ivory gold against the blurred sunset that strove through the rain, had a promise Dick had never seen before: the high cheek-bones, the faintly wan quality, cool rather than feverish, was reminiscent of the frame of a promising colt—a creature whose life did not promise to be only a projection of youth upon a grayer screen, but instead, a true growing; the face would be handsome in middle life; it would be handsome in old age: the essential structure and the economy were…†   (source)
  • But was not the annoyance she felt in this regard somehow reminiscent of her relationship to Settembrini, young Hans Castorp's pedagogic friend?†   (source)
  • The music and their cries were reminiscent of a Salvation Army revival meeting, even for someone like Hans Castorp, who had never attended services held by those high-spirited enthusiasts.†   (source)
  • This air, ladies and gentlemen, this day's foehn air so rich in character, so tenderly enervating, suggestive and reminiscent of spring's fragrance—we should not breathe it in merely so that in the form of—I implore you: we should not do it.†   (source)
  • We are talking about a stroll by the shore—a state of being for which Hans Castorp always felt a great partiality; and, as we know, he gratefully enjoyed thinking of life in the snow as reminiscent of the rolling dunes of his homeland.†   (source)
  • And, indeed, a clandestine compulsion to take the presence of that personality into consideration killed the spark that normally leaped between the two—it was reminiscent of the dull, lifeless feeling that overcomes you when an electrical outlet turns out to be dead.†   (source)
  • Rhadamanthus had been very close to the mark in interpreting his guest's expression and mood, and his new initiative was intended—expressly intended, he did not deny it at all—to help Hans Castorp move beyond the dead standstill at which he found himself of late, as was obvious in his body language, so clearly reminiscent of Joachim's in the days when certain wild, defiant decisions were forming inside him.†   (source)
  • What Frau Stohr in her ignorance did to the phrase dulci jubilo was quite extraordinary; she pronounced the first word as "dolce," borrowing it from the Italian musical vocabulary of her spouse, but the second was more reminiscent of "yippee-ay-oh" or God only knew what—and at the sound of her Latin, the two cousins simultaneously made a grab for the straws in their glasses.†   (source)
  • This is accomplished by diminishment—and we use this term to describe an illusory, or, to be quite explicit, diseased element, that is obviously pertinent here: diminishment occurs to some extent whenever a narrative makes use of hermetic magic and a temporal hyperperspective reminiscent of certain anomalous experiences of reality that imply that the senses have been transcended.†   (source)
  • The turkey in the poultry-yard, always troubled with a class-grievance (probably Christmas), may be reminiscent of that summer morning wrongfully taken from him when he got into the lane among the felled trees, where there was a barn and barley.†   (source)
  • "Jacob MacKenzie," he said, with a fond, reminiscent smile.†   (source)
  • Aye," he said, reminiscently viewing the grass stalk in his hand, "winter grass is tough, and it's sour—not like this—but I didna pay it much mind.†   (source)
  • He shuddered reminiscently.†   (source)
  • He smiled reminiscently.†   (source)
  • The issue in the campaign was a highly complex one, but under it lay a plain conflict between democratic independence and the [Pg065] old doctrine of dependence and authority; and with the Alien and Sedition Laws about his neck, so vividly reminiscent of the issues of the Revolution itself, Adams went down to defeat.†   (source)
  • …terrestrial hemispheres, in all habitable lands and islands explored or unexplored (the land of the midnight sun, the islands of the blessed, the isles of Greece, the land of promise), of adipose anterior and posterior female hemispheres, redolent of milk and honey and of excretory sanguine and seminal warmth, reminiscent of secular families of curves of amplitude, insusceptible of moods of impression or of contrarieties of expression, expressive of mute immutable mature animality.†   (source)
  • …the Greek and Germanic systems, Kant having studied and stated, Fichte and Schelling and Hegel, Stated the lore of Plato, and Socrates greater than Plato, And greater than Socrates sought and stated, Christ divine having studied long, I see reminiscent to-day those Greek and Germanic systems, See the philosophies all, Christian churches and tenets see, Yet underneath Socrates clearly see, and underneath Christ the divine I see, The dear love of man for his comrade, the attraction of…†   (source)
  • But do you reserve especially for yourself and for the soul of man one flag above all the rest, A spiritual woven signal for all nations, emblem of man elate above death, Token of all brave captains and all intrepid sailors and mates, And all that went down doing their duty, Reminiscent of them, twined from all intrepid captains young or old, A pennant universal, subtly waving all time, o'er all brave sailors, All seas, all ships.†   (source)
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