It awakened painful memories of an earlier abandonment, although Desiree could hardly remember the father who had left her when she was a little girl.

Such a long period without swimming awakened vivid memories of her first use of the airmakers.

The scene awakens sweet memories from the corners of my own mind of a game we played as children.

The martial pomp and red flags have awakened memories of Stalin that are often painful.

She awakens painful memories of his own child, but after some persuasion from a policewoman friend, he agrees to help her.

She was beautiful then, and the computer awakened memories.

All around me, the smells of cold metal and antiseptic were awakening horrible memories I had buried deep a long time ago.

He thought he'd gotten Vietnam out of his system years before, but the names in the news awakened old memories.

And I, reluctant, as if on a doctor's couch, awakening blurred memories, long ago put away to sleep.

After all, their very purpose is to awaken memories and safeguard our ties to the past.