reminiscent

• “Gupta Rao.” Her brows grew reminiscent, as if the name suggested vague connection with the past. —  OM: The Secret of Ahbor Valley
• Indeed, he wore an expression reminiscent of a prankish schoolboy caught in undeniable mischief, and when I turned to him he raised his hands, palms up, simultaneously elevating his shoulders in a gesture that said, What can I tell you ? —  FSF,August2004
• People with some knowledge of internecine struggles in the small but extremely virulent community of British Jooish anti-Zionists will find the name reminiscent of a certain fraction. —  Israelated - English Israel blogs
• All his buildings were more or less reminiscent, and told again in stone the story so often told in words at the Nazionale_, for Death was kind and claimed him before he had ceased to be the discoverer to become himself Donoghue too has gone, Donoghue the sculptor who as I knew him in Rome was so overflowing with life, so young that I felt inclined to credit him with the gift of immortal youth, so big and handsome and gay that wherever he went laughter went with him. —  Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties
• Some expressions of truth are reminiscent--others merely sensible_, as the phrase is,--others prophetic. —  Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American

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