vestigial memory

He had no vestigial memory of Cambodia at all.

The sight of it made him frown, as if at some vague, vestigial memory.

Strict guidelines govern the production of these "duplicates", which must be destroyed before vestigial memory renders them indistinguishable from the originals.

Some people can fruits and vegetables out of habit, or to honor the vestigial memory of times when putting food aside was an imperative for survival.

You can join with us ... And Data realized that he was encountering some vestigial memory of the great Borg mind.

"Rodney Dangerfield said, 'I went to a boxing match and a hockey game broke out,' " Johnson said, with the vestigial memory of a 1980 Olympian who played under international rules.

Some salmon experts speculate that it is done out of pure cussedness, others say that it's a reaction triggered by a salmon's vestigial memory of its days in the stream when it dined heavily on aquatic insects.

Even when not evil, they tended to be the representatives, the angels, as it were, of the gods of darkness, death, and destruction, as if they were some ancient vestigial memory of some prehistoric common reality.

Some pitchers, like Stanton, have a vestigial memory of being youthful hitters in the mold of Don Drysdale, Bob Gibson, Don Newcombe, Warren Spahn and other pitchers who could hit.

The refugee human colonists, struggling to make a new home here, no more understood the secret beneath the sea than the mers themselves did; but they paid its vestigial memory homage as the Sea Mother, and called its immortal children sacred.

Here, the clifflike walls were adorned with cryptic symbols in some esoteric script, so ancient and so suggestive that they woke within him vestigial memories inherited from ancestors scarce risen above the primal, shambling beast-men of Time's dawn.

This is the future of baseball - synthetic, loud and sterile - and we had better get used to it, even those of us with vestigial memories who know, just know, that baseball was better in the sun and shadows of early October.

For Istanbul's smart set - far more at home with Armani suits than with any vestigial memory of the fez - the city's residential spread onto the eastern shoreline of the Bosporous provides the setting for some of the trendiest new discos and restaurants.