How To Use Nostalgia In A Sentence
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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.
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Auschwitz was his great adventure, Angier writes, “his time in Technicolor … for which he could even feel nostalgia.”
If This Is a Man
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It's been a good week for those who like to wallow in nostalgia for the 1980s.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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Hearing that tune again filled him with nostalgia.
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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
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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.
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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
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By the turn of the century, gardens had become symbols of longing, nostalgia and a desire to return to simpler times.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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Friday, I enjoyed with an almost melancholy nostalgia because the skies were a deep blue with not a cloud or chemtrail in sight.
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Their back-up teams might be more prone to nostalgia and sentiment, especially those who have honed their tallying skills over many the long count.
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Nostalgia is a collective, fictionalised and romanticised view of the past, no?
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It’s this weird nexus of collectibility and browsability and nostalgia-crack that made me really excited about this.
Diversicon Report | Goblin Mercantile Exchange
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Squinting through nostalgia's rose-tinted eye, I see beautifully realised dungeons and ancient forests with evil monsters and talking walls and things.
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I have a burst of instant nostalgia whenever I stroll through its rather beguiling streets.
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Besides being a nostalgia trip, it also promises to be an unforgettable culinary experience.
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They came back on a parade float of prodigal love and public money, promising entertainment, nostalgia and success.
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I look forward to her future with uncertainty, I look to her past with a twinge of nostalgia.
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Not much -- any list of the Thirteen Best Books is pretty random and thus useless and I have to wonder whether, in including the Hardy Boys, he means the ones he read as a lad (nostalgia time) or the ones currently published (out-and-out lame).
Speaking as one old fart to another
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What is humankind but a knot of flames burning with nostalgia for the infinite?
The Broken God
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Support drifts away into nostalgia and conspiracy theories as other parties crowd in on key policies
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With solid tunes and great song construction, this is not simply a nostalgia trip.
The Sun
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David Finkle: Bus Pull-Cords Are Back
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But sweeping narrative is not Leaf's style; instead, she represents incisive moments, many of them funny, some harrowing, and all equally free of portent and nostalgia.
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It is a legend compounded of nostalgia, wishful thinking and apple pie.
Times, Sunday Times
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But when nostalgia overtook her, she found a California cheesemonger with the good stuff.
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Their nostalgia for allegedly better times and places vies with the imperative to redeem the present.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Again, the harsh conditions under which Shostakovich was compelled to represent himself are often found transposed to the prosaic sphere of paranoid nostalgia.
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Although the three were not ideally attuned, they brought a gentle whiff of nostalgia to a season of high-keyed dance.
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Born in a time of social/political crisis, the wuxia film reflects a nationalist nostalgia/fantasy for a China that never was.
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His unsettling ideas will be neutralised by nostalgia for a period already mostly forgotten.
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There is an unmistakable note of nostalgia in his voice when he looks back on the early years of the family business.
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But being nostalgic is often derided as being just mawkish or sentimental; what's your take on nostalgia and sport?
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Shorn of the ostentatious nostalgia that afflicts too many period films, The House of Mirth is a bracing, cleanly wrought spiral of a film, a chiller in the true sense of the word.
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[Publishers Weekly] • Matt Blind considers the changing landscape as the industry moves away from "floppies" and toward books: "The current Local Comic Shop sells dust, nostalgia, and good will.
Food or Comics | Money, comics and the economy | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
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The emotion is Janus-faced : we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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The dictionary defines nostalgia as 'a sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past '.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were tons of nostalgia, family sentiment, bonding, celebration, entertainment and even a message.
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These objects add instant nostalgia when hung on your kitchen wall or placed in a basket on your counter top.
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Recent studies have shown that people prone to nostalgia are better at coping with stress.
Times, Sunday Times
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The mixture of resentment, nostalgia and love for an unattainable home underpins the documentary.
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Last Son's 65 minutes are packed with nostalgia for the musclebound superhero, the two high school kids who created him, and the way he inspired millions of Americans.
George Heymont: Superman, We Hardly Knew Ye! (VIDEOS)
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They are organized by season, and I find this clever and wonderfully suited: jam-making is really the art of canning an ephemeral moment of the year, to be enjoyed later when nostalgia strikes.
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Maybe it's a kind of wised-up, at times even loathing nostalgia-precisely the kind of contradiction that drives the show creatively.
Francis Anderson
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This story's been told as many times as the regurgitated hot dog, but hey, this is the weekend for nostalgia overdosage.
The Hogettes in Canton
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It evokes a melancholy nostalgia that is hard to capture.
The Sun
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Unless you're the Rolling Stones, or one of those forgotten relics of the 1970s schlepping round the nostalgia circuit, you don't tour for profit; you tour to promote your latest release.
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My overwhelming emotion was nostalgia, oddly enough; nostalgia for the peculiar cultural nexus that this movie represented.
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The DVD might provide a pleasant evening for retirees in the mood for some innocuous nostalgia.
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Both citationality and nostalgia repackage the past in present styles and for present uses, and both can contribute to Orientalizing backwardness in obvious and direct ways.
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That would be a glorious wallow in nostalgia.
The Sun
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They came back on a parade float of prodigal love and public money, promising entertainment, nostalgia and success.
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One of the things with nostalgia is the warm feeling you get from the things that both frightened and fascinated you as a kid.
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Nostalgia, incidentally, is an emotion I'm very interested in these days.
A Conversation with Kazuo Ishiguro about Never Let Me Go
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Several of her poems are marked by pain, a sense of loss and nostalgia.
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The trump card is nostalgia, but is that enough to carry a film?
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Revisionists would say that the romanticism of the chroniclers' reverie for that era was coloured by nostalgia for the generation lost in the first world war that choked their critical senses but the glory of Cardus's prose outweighs almost all quibbles.
VVS Laxman is the latest standard bearer for the Golden Age
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There is a melancholy in the modern world which looks with nostalgia to the days when magic ruled the world, and sunrise was a time of aubade, dusk a time for the canticles of evensong, when the elfin ships can be glimpsed by those with second sight against the fiery clouds, setting sail away from the mortal shores for worlds beyond the sunset, beyond the seas we know.
MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel
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It was with not a little nostalgia that I responded to similar saliva-inducing twittering last week, emanating from inside the forbidding walls of the Smithsonian Institution.
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When Mr Major waxes philosophical, he comes over as a strange mix of nostalgia and modernism.
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The days of hosepipe bans and drought restrictions almost feel like nostalgia.
Times, Sunday Times
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Granada Plus is giving us the chance to wallow in nostalgia by rerunning the series each weeknight.
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Nostalgia for the original and the passing of time cloud our judgment and objectivity.
The Sun
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He might be influenced by nostalgia for his happy youth.
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She shook the feeling of nostalgia and flicked back to their current hit.
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There is a morbid nostalgia in the desire to draw death back into our everyday lives.
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An immigrant arriving today would feel the ache of nostalgia less because there are so many celebrations here now.
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So while you wait for another oldie to come along, you have to get your nostalgia fix from iconic gear and moments from the film.
Times, Sunday Times
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The growth of revivalism as a collective phenomenon in recent decades might also be seen in relation to more general reactions against nostalgia.
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The fashion buzzword is nostalgia and the new look is old-inspired as it is by the 70s and the 80s.
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On the other side of the teleport was a cyber/steampunk fantasy on a cinematic scale which I now present to you dark roasted, having made use of AM Radio's delightful Nostalgia Windlight preset to record my impressions.
The Innsmouth Island Airship Tower on the Vernian Sea
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We could say, in a Platonic sense, that the dart of nostalgia hits man, wounds him, and precisely in this way puts wings on him, lifts him upwards.
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I opened by saying we could not wallow in nostalgia.
Sharing the Success - the story of NFC
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There is much to be said against indulging in golden-ageism whereby the acerbities and absurdities of the past disappear into the glow of nostalgia.
The Decline and Fall of Literature
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It evoked feelings of nostalgia, embarrassment and wonder at how I was thinking then.
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The event is expected to be a supercharged night of high emotion and raw nostalgia when one of the greatest adventure stories of all time will be told by the men who made it happen.
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Twelve years ago he combined his love of history and railways - he was a trainspotter as a boy - by going into producing railway nostalgia films.
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The name stirs in herdsmen and reapers sentiments of loyalty and liberty, and in the narrator nostalgia for the old days in hope that they will become the future days.
Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music
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The rise reflects nostalgia for the old certainties.
Times, Sunday Times
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In short, we need our ambition for the future to overcome our nostalgia for the past: we need confidence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Can we justify a nostalgia for the days of the mavericks?
Times, Sunday Times
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The dictionary defines nostalgia as 'a sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past '.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most compelling are her songs that capture the essence of saudade, which has no exact translation to English but can be described as the overpowering nostalgia and yearning for something which is gone.
Buzzine » Mariza
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Nostalgia for glamorous times gone by is evident in most of the fashionable ranges.
Times, Sunday Times
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Get ready for one big nostalgia trip.
The Sun
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That has sparked accusations that the ruling party is wallowing in a nostalgia at odds with a 21st-century European democracy.
Times, Sunday Times
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For Chaplin, technocracy (especially corporate capitalism) must be fought, and nostalgia and sentiment must triumph.
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I think people are attracted to the humour and nostalgia that he portrays.
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The Irish visit was largely an occasion for nostalgia, sentiment and photo opportunities.
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It went out with a blitz of billboard and press advertising last week to create a sense of nostalgia for a lost form of popular culture.
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Hearing that tune again filled him with nostalgia.
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I have such a soft spot in my heart for the film that it's hard to see past all the nostalgia.
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And the trend in some parts of the world is towards huge, high-tech, intensive feedlot dairy farming with no place for sentiment and nostalgia.
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But some of us remember political discourse with dewy-eyed nostalgia.
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It's very gauzy and kind of encased in fluff and nostalgia, and it doesn't express the real history of the parkway at all.
News & Record Article Feed
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This long weekend will see a nation boss-eyed with self-indulgent excitement, hooked on the dangerous drug of royal nostalgia.
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Some recall certain aspects of the colonial era with nostalgia, such as Ivorian Germaine Kouassi, 67, a retired civil servant who remembers that before 1960, "school was really free, we were given a pen-holder, a quill, all the supplies.
Raw Story
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For the first few loops, it offered a nice little shot of nostalgia, but after 114 minutes of power ballads I yearned to jam two flathead screwdrivers into my ears.
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They Werent So Bad After All, or assert that the film evinces "dewy-eyed nostalgia" for the GDR, is beyond my comprehension.
GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 11/30.
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The days of the Empire were by then long gone, but not so the English romance with faraway places or its nostalgia for the past.
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As MacNeice was to observe in 1941, ‘A Prayer for my Daughter’ articulates Yeats's nostalgia for a more ceremonious and structured past.
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For a poet content to dwell in the gap between an inner and outer reality and between ideal and real worlds, nostalgia for the past must not monopolize one's identity.
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Every once in a while there will be a fad for something-like the present yuppie cupcake business- trading on some sort of mix of nostalgia and camp, but for the most part, there's that unfortunate association with junkiness.
Cake
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Also, the genre has become so immured in an Anglo-American nostalgia for a European past that it's refreshing to find a non-Eurocentric example of an alternate-world fantasy novel.
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From their works, we can read a young and live emotion, which abreact and disclose their puzzlement, fear, nostalgia, withdrawnness, violence, humor and strength.
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Stay too long and you inevitably drown in a quicksand of disappointment, seedy nostalgia and self-deception.
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Nostalgia for the original and the passing of time cloud our judgment and objectivity.
The Sun
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A discussion about the merits of Bob Dylan's new memoir, for instance, quickly degenerated into a patchouli-scented haze of dewy-eyed 1960s nostalgia and hippie-dippy pretentiousness.
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If they grow jaded, grow bored, or simply prefer sentiment and nostalgia to active participation, the last avenue of escape is closed.
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On one occasion Chapman glowed with nostalgia, took a deep pull on his pipe, and jogged his narcoleptic friend's arm.
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The hyper-modernism of retro fashions following so precipitately on their originals allows no space for nostalgia, just as its depthless present can neither articulate nor hear a different future.
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Each time, she plans to beguile him into nostalgia for his childhood, to remind him, tempt him to recall.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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For years, the yellowing envelope and the letter it contained were kept solely for nostalgia value, despite being pressed into service as a humble bookmark.
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These objects add instant nostalgia when hung on your kitchen wall or placed in a basket on your counter top.
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Along with the concept, there was this nagging feeling of nostalgia for the past.
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I think there's an infectious wave of formless nostalgia sweeping the nation at the moment.
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This is a show that, despite its bygone English rural setting, is without nostalgia or sentimentality.
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Then there will be a real state funeral, familiar nostalgia, more eulogies to praise duty and endurance.
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Their 1967 double-A-side single "Penny Lane"/"Strawberry Fields Forever" transformed the nondescript streets of Liverpool suburbs into places of aching nostalgia.
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It is full of nostalgia for a Scotland past and gone but full of hope for the new, modern Scotland.
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The distance – inflected with nostalgia and absurdism – is essential, because one of the things Stezaker is engaged in is a daring rescue of images from the memory dump of the recent past.
Brian Dillon on John Stezaker at the Whitechapel Gallery
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The pose and the facial expression impart a spiritual intensity to the scene that I have found particularly memorable, perhaps partly from nostalgia.
Insight: Legacy of Medieval Serbia
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In this view, Americans' obliviousness ended with an outbreak of nostalgia at the turn of the century, fanned by general concern over the heedless pace of industrial society.
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He thought back to his time as a student and felt no nostalgia for any of it.
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Despite his "sound of Blackness" Cain had been successful reaching a broader audience than expected, in large part of his deft negotiation of racial nostalgia and racial accommodation -- none which makes him any less Black or so-called self-hating, but simply more willing to work within the constraints of a highly racialized society, on that society's terms.
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I am bathed in love and nostalgia, of longings and such memories.
Times, Sunday Times
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But nostalgia is his swan song.
Times, Sunday Times
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Boyhood's end is a short but dramatic work full of conflicting emotions and nostalgia for days of yore.
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The twenties ended in a confused haze of nostalgia and innovation.
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The nostalgia's great, I'm loving experiencing it, but my feelings for Queen of the South won't sustain me in the supporters' eyes.
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He established standards that were remembered with nostalgia when a couple of his successors became embroiled in scandal.
Times, Sunday Times
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A trend for romance and nostalgia has emerged.
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There is no pseudo nostalgia going on here, but a genuine feel for a kind of music that is an integrant part of each one of the four members.
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Clusters of sketches within each episode cohered around clear themes: nostalgia and television in episode 3 or political correctness in episode 9.
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Instead of showing examples of British design, I decided to use imagery that summed up 'Britishness' and conveyed an element of nostalgia and kitschness.
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The lover of eclectic interiors has a nostalgia for the past and spends a lot of time collecting memorabilia of all kinds to display.
Collins Complete Books of Soft Furnishings
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Frederick Jackson Turner's famed 1893 work, "The Frontier Thesis, " was nostalgia for a past world: all of the new industries were concentrated in urban centers.
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While displaying nostalgia for a vanishing rural and small-town America, their work also adeptly propagandized for the New Deal.
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Nostalgia for the refined elegance of the older woman is all the rage in New York at the moment, with glossy magazines featuring models wearing tweeds, wool coats and pearls.
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The vintage light of Affonso Beato's cinematography producing sunglow yellow in California and glam grim blue in John Lindsay's New York helps set a mood of nostalgia for nostalgia, a yearning for youthful earnestness.
Slate Magazine
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Sentiment and nostalgia are for pleasant memories.
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Top Comp appeals to racers and fans because it attracts a variety of cars, ranging from dragsters and Pro Mods to nostalgia dragsters and Pro Stockers.
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What is humankind but a knot of flames burning with nostalgia for the infinite?
The Broken God
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While this nostalgia certainly informs and influences her vision, it is balanced within a fairly complex cosmography that distinguishes between going ‘back’ and ‘going backward.’
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Nostalgia for the original and the passing of time cloud our judgment and objectivity.
The Sun
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His portrait of Templeton is at times suffused in an atmosphere of sentimental nostalgia.
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The appearance of Graves, hinting at decadence, reinforces the notion that he wasted too much time playing toffee-nosed twits in Waughesque nostalgia flicks, when his range as an actor stretches far beyond billiard room banter.
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The finesse of his shaping of its bittersweet nostalgia collided with constant extreme changes of tempo and direction, making its emotional fragility palpable.
Times, Sunday Times
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(Jane Birkin costarred with Dirk Bogarde in Daddy Nostalgia directed by Bertrand Tavernier.)
Miranda July at the End Of May + Tavernier, Jane Birkin & Merchant
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And is this fact no more than nostalgia or is it a pointer to what the future holds?
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In addition, many have been gripped by a wave of nostalgia for the old east.
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Along with the concept, there was this nagging feeling of nostalgia for the past.
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This knee-jerk nostalgia for nursing's mythical golden age simply will not do.
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Friends from the past who you haven't seen in ages may turn up today and the sense of happy nostalgia you'll feel will be overwhelming.
The Sun
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What is humankind but a knot of flames burning with nostalgia for the infinite?
The Broken God
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He might be influenced by nostalgia for his happy youth.
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The graphically crisp, retro lettering style adds a whiff of nostalgia to this evocation of language's reflexive capacity.
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For once it was not an exploration of gluttony (as say the absolute * need* once in a while to flambe some bananas with butter, sugar and brandy) but of ritual, nostalgia and a homage to my fast fading mother.
Archive 2008-06-01
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So people can say what they want but at the end of the day there is still a huge desire for nostalgia and things of the past and reliving how it was in this country a century ago.
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It's all bland, unoriginal pap that will only appeal to the nostalgia-seekers of the original BSB generation.
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There's a sense of nostalgia, an indefinable ache, that crystallises the artist's repertoire at a certain point in time.
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This writer has no nostalgia to blunt the awfulness and isn't capable of the humour that comes with retrospection.
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A Tour of pure nostalgia with some of the greatest artists ever to grace the concert stage in Ireland will be coming to the north west next month.
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Here then is nostalgia with a personal intensity within a poem that evokes language games and surreal imagery.
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Caine's mother was a charlady, so the scenes in the rural pile in the movie had a far deeper resonance for him than mere film-set nostalgia.
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But when a graphic designer uses a typeface that is older than 30 years, it is dismissed as retro, nostalgia or emptiness.
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Every family of the street had a member present and nostalgia was the theme.
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Nostalgia for the past and for the homeland is represented in the sentiments of Sebastianismo and saudade and in the lyrics of the fado.
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Even though I think 80s music was pretty bad, the nostalgia's slaying me every time.
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Not that the banners themselves are in any way a nostalgia trip.
Times, Sunday Times
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A mix of incomplete memories, of sublime glamour tinged with nostalgia and some religious piety thrown in for good luck.
Times, Sunday Times
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What is humankind but a knot of flames burning with nostalgia for the infinite?
The Broken God
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I guess this shouldn't be too shocking given that guy who used to own the studio tried to colorize Citizen Kane. joenostalgia
All Warner Bros Tentpole Movies Will Be Released in 3D | /Film
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What School Disco largely deals in is not nostalgia, but inoffensive, singalong pop and rock hits, the sort of thing you'd find on your average pub jukebox.
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Images that traditionally evoke nostalgia become symptomatic of inevitable decay.
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It can look a little gauche to blog about some seemingly random scrap of nostalgia, but if I link those memories to an anniversary then suddenly my blogpost has an acceptable reason to exist.
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In this case, the Soviet nostalgia is not a function of crude economic or social factors, but of the acute sense of geo-political loss.
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It's part of the whole nostalgia kick, I suspect.
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The platformer side of the game is as stale and uninventive as ever, but the multiplayer offering, which smells of nostalgia, will definitely please fans.
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There was naught but shadows in the room; even Joyce had fled, and the forlorn, unshakeable feeling of nostalgia.
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These songs have set the trend for melody and have evoked the nostalgia, which was fading into oblivion.
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The images, however, did not directly reflect a changing America, but rather gently refracted it through a hazy lens of unironic, idealized nostalgia that today seems absolutely eerie.
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This is comfort food at its best, whether you crave warmth, sweetness and stodge or simply want to feed your nostalgia.
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He was an eccentric mixture, a novelist of talent but a pamphleteer of genius, an aesthete whose trademark was gritty realism, a radical socialist with a conservative nostalgia for the shabby-genteel England of his Edwardian childhood.
The saint of common decency
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It is also full of nostalgia as they reminisce the days of yore in the form of song, dance and photos of old Hawaii.
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Instead of direct confrontation with the brutal events of the last decade, the afterglow is saturated with indirectness, reminiscence, and even nostalgia.
Anis Shivani: Huffington Post Exclusive: The 10 Best Books Of 2010 (PHOTOS)
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A trend for romance and nostalgia has emerged.
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The quotation contains a series of elisions: of time and place, of ancient and modern women, of women's bodies and the earth's body, of nostalgia and healing.
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Since then it has persisted in residual form as an idea, discredited for some and regarded with nostalgia by others.
The Times Literary Supplement
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She's no nostalgia merchant for the musical Luddites, and it's not just the eternal verities of soul music that Jones traffics in.
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But Spielberg's strong sense of nostalgia and his increasing sense of irony makes Follies, a forever ‘troubled’ show, a perfect match.
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As a piece of eighties nostalgia it does the job but for what you get you'd find better value in a compilation CD and some vintage sportswear, for there's little else here.
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Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
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None of my fellow smokers and ex-smokers can believe I still feel pangs of nostalgia for the habit I finally ditched in March after 25 years, on and off.
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But he's also caught in a nostalgia/novelty loop; the track itself is uninventive, and touches like Marlon Brando's cameo add nothing.
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Those who share my nostalgia for hats might be interested to know that it will be 150 years tomorrow since John Bowler invented the bowler hat.
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Glenn Beck and the Tea Party represent a very vocal minority, so worked up about the direction of our nation that they'll pour into Washington by the hundreds of thousands to worship at the feet of a religious revivalism rooted in nostalgia for a white-washed version of America that never was.
Sally Kohn: One Nation March: Sometimes Size Doesn't Matter
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Like so many donations, John Lyons's gift to his alma mater is rooted in nostalgia.
Fordham Alum Honors His Wife With Football Gift
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Get ready for one big nostalgia trip.
The Sun
