half-remembered
Britishadjective
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Dispatches from a saner time of millennial life like “Up Down” and “Can’t Believe It” landed like an envelope of Instax photos from a half-remembered house party.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s about kids growing up, nations in transition, the author’s lingering ambivalence about being well-off enough to hop to London, Moscow, Albania or elsewhere — sometimes for pleasure, sometimes for work, sometimes for reasons half-remembered.
From Los Angeles Times
I didn't want to hear the pseudo-intellectual assertion that you must "separate the art from the artist" in response, a claim rooted in half-remembered English lit classes.
From Salon
With no officials patrolling the cardo, and no other tourists around, we lingered in the forum, deploying half-remembered Latin to decipher its engraved dedications, right up to dusk, when the sandstone of the columns and wall footings flared umber in the low sun.
From Washington Post
This and other touches keep suggesting half-remembered bits and bobs from indie crime capers and sketch shows of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
From New York Times
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