The full transcript shows some precise recollections, three weeks after a relatively brief encounter with a large group of white strangers.

He didn't say no, but, he conceded, "I didn't have a precise recollection until I saw her."

Far more often, though, O'Brien's prose is her own and firmly under control, an apt instrument for the precise, poetic recollection of a distant world.

I think I probably read something like it a long time ago, but I don't have a very precise recollection of whatever it was that I read.

When Ms. Kelly doesn't try so hard, as in her wonderfully precise and succinct recollections of Nebraska, she succeeds in conveying much more.

He does not have a precise recollection that mirrors what Sheehan's theory was.

He rejected the account of one witness because, he said, her testimony reflected a more precise recollection of events than she had exhibited at trial.

Was she dreaming sadly, without any precise recollection of anything that had happened?

She was careful about her choice of words-she wanted the most precise recollection.

And brought with it a precise and sharply-etched recollection that required no effort of the imagination to build or bolster.