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reminiscent of

adj. serving to bring to mind; "cannot forbear to close on this redolent literary note"- Wilder Hobson; "a campaign redolent of machine politics" [syn: evocative, redolent, redolent of(p), remindful, reminiscent, reminiscent of(p)]

Usage examples of "reminiscent of".

He slithered back into the daylight, and the sound he made over the gravel, potsherds and sand was strangely reminiscent of chains.

Nineteen years old, Ulug Beg was an amateur boxer with a Popeye physique, milk-coffee skin, black spiky hair, and wide Asian features reminiscent of the paintings of Mongol warriors.

She tugged the coat lapels and struck a pose so reminiscent of Nikki at his most self aware, that Mikhyel almost choked on his stifled laughter.

This is reminiscent of Gandalf, who is wise enough to be aware of dangers even when everyone else forgets them.

Does this seem reminiscent of the prescriptions for memorizing offered in the ancient arts of memory?

The most widely known hypothesis that is at least reminiscent of the triune brain is Sigmund Freud's division of the human psyche into id, ego and superego.

He proceeded to remind them of those occasions, at unnecessary length, and in a prose style that was reminiscent of Miss Minton's more romantic passages.

The briny scent of the sea here was very close to that of his homeworld, the sound of waves breaking on the rocks so reminiscent of those below his natal compound, he could close his eyes and see every detail again in his mind.

The wizened petty noble behind the wide table had a manner reminiscent of a lizard.

Turn that page and there is yet another cartoon, this one reminiscent of some of the impish, elfin sketches in the Sickert collection at Islington Public Libraries.

In one version of the painting, the feather-boa-enveloped diva has a white blob on her left shoulder that is slightly reminiscent of one of the stuffed doves under the glass dome on top of the dresser.

Long past containing her pelt, it was deeply sunk in it, and her hair thrust from its gridwork in soft spikes reminiscent of the half-erected feathers of an angry hawk.

On entering, I was struck by a pharmaceutical smell reminiscent of chloroform.

The style was almost reminiscent of ancient Egyptian, all in profile and two very flat dimensions yet finely featured.