nostalgia

[ US /nɔˈstæɫdʒə/ ]
[ UK /nəstˈæld‍ʒɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. longing for something past
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How To Use nostalgia In A Sentence

  • Those brought up in the punk rock era will have a twinge of nostalgia for the days when it was a badge of honour to be gobbed on by your idols.
  • Auschwitz was his great adventure, Angier writes, “his time in Technicolor … for which he could even feel nostalgia.” If This Is a Man
  • It's been a good week for those who like to wallow in nostalgia for the 1980s. Times, Sunday Times
  • Even given this broad re-engagement with Jewish culture and history, the nostalgia for and interest in the shmatte business over the past decade has been overwhelming. Shmatte Chic | Jewschool
  • Hearing that tune again filled him with nostalgia.
  • In this sense, can we say that the dismissal of Schoenberg et al had its roots in a sort of century-long "me, me, me, emotive"/composer-becoming-the-subject of historical inquiry -- where the "forward looking" or the "next new thing" was the prescient objective -- came to a violent collision with the unfamiliar, one which is unreconcilable with nostalgia? Every night, they say, he sings the herd to sleep
  • But he does not allow himself to yield either to the past, or its falsifier, nostalgia, the ‘history’ of which mind-set he incisively anatomises.
  • You feel jumpy and emotional and those great rolling waves of nostalgia you're trying to suppress are washing over you like waves on a beach. The Sun
  • By the turn of the century, gardens had become symbols of longing, nostalgia and a desire to return to simpler times. Times, Sunday Times
  • Many of Jay Ward's characters and catchphrases have since morphed into pop-culture shorthand: Dudley Do-Right, the clueless Mountie, is shorthand for anybody who stumbles into a situation overconfident he's doing the right thing; Snidely Whiplash, Do-Right's nemesis, for a scenery-chewing villain; the "Waybac" Machine, Mr. Peabody's time-travel system, for a nostalgia flashback; as well as expressions such as "nothing up my sleeve ... presto!" and JSOnline.com
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