How To Use Nostalgic In A Sentence
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Lost in nostalgic souvenirs I ambled past les belles, snapping a few more photos along the way.
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The Largo is done broadly and is less nostalgic than tragic; some suspect intonation from the wind choir reduces the music's power somewhat.
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Rudyard Kipling's Recessional, in exultant recognition of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, embodied the spirit of that nostalgic period.
Responsible Nationhood
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The old pub ashtray was beautifully made and designed, produced in limited numbers and has great nostalgic value, he argues.
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Its tranquil moments convey a nostalgic yearning common to Japanese folk music.
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So, everyone's waxing nostalgic in some way or another, from designers and critics to the audience.
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Again this year, Saturday night's Harvey Awards ceremony will be emceed by "PVP" creator Scott Kurtz, who acknowledges the necessity for some event growth -- even as he's a bit nostalgic for an even smaller 'Con.
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Mass opposition to a war against a dictator who models himself on Stalin is being led by a man who is nostalgic for Stalin.
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Finally, nostalgic for his happy Chicago childhood, he turned his drama department into a surrogate family with himself as benevolently beaming paterfamilias.
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Clothing stores aimed at the middle-aged will be looking for nostalgic tracks from their customers' adolescence.
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How am I supposed to get nostalgic for the early Noughties already?
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In a distant past, when there were vast territories still unmapped, there were secret places everywhere, though, I imagine, few of them held nostalgic charms for those who stumbled on them accidentally on their way to somewhere else.
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Neely's cartooning is light and breezy one panel (deftly evoking a cartoon-strip nostalgic past) and utterly terrifying the next, as the Blot and the unnamed character come to terms with one another.
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Despite his better mood, he did feel nostalgic for his early teen years.
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No doubt Einstein himself is in some measure responsible for this image, since, in later life, he reflected nostalgically on solitude, isolation, and creativity.
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Is he daunted by the prospect of entering the nostalgic hearts of a new generation himself?
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Although additions and expansions have been made to suit its occupants, the Bishop's House at Fort Kochi can instantly take you on a nostalgic ride.
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Frankly, I am a little surprised to see him waxing nostalgic about any decision by John French - but there you go.
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The mother's abandonment of the stance of a nostalgic exile is signified by her farewelling her parents at their graveside in Cantonese; she had greeted them on her arrival in Japanese.
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His mother's nostalgic memories had led Juan to expect a town ‘that smelled of spilt honey’.
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Goode, who spent 17 years as the curator of the Smithsonian Castle, has not assembled a picture book for nostalgics.
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It was unashamedly nostalgic and very enjoyable.
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There are also plenty of nostalgic nods back to Webb's 1970s childhood when eccles cakes were referred to as squashed fly cakes and bourbon biscuits were regularly remarked on as looking like something you might give to the dog.
Food Britannia by Andrew Webb – review
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The book takes a nostalgic look at the golden age of the railway.
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It is difficult not to wax nostalgic when gold is counterpoised to inflation, currency depreciation, exchange-rate uncertainty and chronic balance-of-payments shortfalls.
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Now 60 years on, the process has been repeated, but reversed, as the commonplace colour of modern films returns to nostalgic black and white.
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An historic and nostalgic week of commemorations is under way to remember the momentous events in Normandy 60 years ago.
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If it puts you in a nostalgic mood, you should immediately obtain Frederick Turner's "Renegade"—an entertaining and skillful evocation of the time when Miller's memoir of bottom-feeding American expats in Paris was known as the dirtiest book in the world.
In Praise Of the Gross
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It's almost a nostalgic reunion.
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From a programming perspective, these things are quite nostalgic - encouraging you to get stuck in and write some good old assembly code.
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Both musicians wax nostalgic about the ease with which their musical conversation resumed.
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The general feeling is very organic, nostalgic and dreamlike without being overly psychedelic and retro.
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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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I'm nostalgic for the days when perjury was an impeachable offense.
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It is an intensely nostalgic piece, yet utterly unsentimental.
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The steam locomotive evokes nostalgic memories of a bygone era with its glory and old age charm.
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He remained nostalgic about his days as a young actor.
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The young girls in them shine through all the make up and Parisian dressing when they giggle at one another's little bloopers and talk nostalgically about their families.
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Now, sitting by her cooking pots while an Ivorian boy pounds onions, tomatoes and peppers into a hot sauce for her fish, Michel talks nostalgically about her mother whom she has not seen for several years.
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Another section of throwback computer game slapstick violence was almost nostalgically rib-tickling.
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But this show is - virtually - all variations on the nostalgic of the harlequinade.
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Instead it has always been sentimental, nostalgic and a little bit winsome.
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When we last heard from them, they were waxing ruefully nostalgic about their chemically wasted youth.
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He meets her friends for nostalgic conversations that lead to joyless affairs.
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They were nostalgic, so to say, about the trials and tribulations they underwent to realise their dream of a bridge across the tributary of the Periyar at Manjummel.
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Saxophonist Greg Tardy provides a good foil with some subtly understated and nostalgic lines that catch the mood of the night.
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Many have fought for a concert hall to benefit nostalgic Europhiles oblivious to the boringness of classical music.
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There will be happy nostalgic memories for the many folk who frequented that popular venue in their youth having now advanced a few years.
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City Councilman Frank Rizzo sounds a more nostalgic note on the way to suggesting his own candidacy.
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These paintings nostalgically evoke the closing frames of old films, with their scripted letterforms superimposed over technicolour backgrounds.
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Every time it opens its waxed mustached mouth to shout a line, a sense of nostalgic giddiness overcomes the viewer.
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T.M. Spooner's novel, Notes from Exile, is a lakeside story, and because it is, I feel a certain nostalgic empathy for the book.
Notes from Exile
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Besides bringing to screen a rarely seen Shakespeare play in India, the film has another extra element, which will probably make old-timers more than nostalgic.
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The feeling was so strange; I wandered round the house with an undefined nostalgic yearning.
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So did he feel nostalgic for the old days?
The Sun
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Then come the convertibles, antique to kids but nostalgic for oldsters.
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He waxes nostalgically about his own classical music past.
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They spent an hour together, talking nostalgically as they wandered slowly down the coast road.
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A reality not of paper, but one that lives within us and determines each instant of our countless daily deaths, and that nourishes a source of insatiable creativity, full of sorrow and beauty, of which this roving and nostalgic Colombian is but one cipher more, singled out by fortune.
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It was a somewhat nostalgic day for the Dolphin Swimming Club when the held their gala in the Portlaoise Swimming Pool last week.
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It offers a nostalgic view of the world that provides warmth and comfort.
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Shot through with mordant wit, they make you nostalgic for the days before e-mail.
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Later Eliza passed her final test at the Embassy Ball and nostalgically recalls the pleasures of the evening as she sings, ‘I Could have Danced All Night’.
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We mustn't get too nostalgic for any particular medium.
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Praveen's particularly nostalgic brand of outswing been compared to many things this morning - Mike Smith, Martin Bicknell, Mudassar Nazar, Jon Lewis, Terry Alderman.
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We mustn't get too nostalgic for any particular medium.
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An English speaker more verbose than profound, her husband waxes nostalgically about Bangladesh, to where he vows to return.
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Alexei Sayle would adopt a maudlin, nostalgic whine and a watery half-smile as he recalled the glories of the music hall.
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Emotional conflict, logical deduction and the period setting make for an entertaining, nostalgic brainteaser.
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Sunset at the end of a blissfully hot summer's day in London would prompt a moment of nostalgic longing in the most hardened of cynics.
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Instead it has always been sentimental, nostalgic and a little bit winsome.
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Proudly warm and nostalgic for its soundstage-perfect Victorian Era setting, the film features Garland as irresistable as ever and Johnson well-cast as a suitor so straight-laced he seems almost quaint by modern standards.
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However, nostalgic programmers have written emulators, programs that run on your PC that make the PC emulate the hardware of those 20 year old arcade machines.
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I get very nostalgic when I watch these old musicals on TV.
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But even I, someone who thinks the case for Jewish "peoplehood" is often overstated and overly nostalgic, felt Messinger had taken the universal argument too far.
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Ed Kemmick, that putrid purveyor of pussyfooted prognostication, waxes nostalgic for the days when newspaper vituperation was in style.
The Iconoclast
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He also proposes a nostalgic return to school uniform and family values.
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They may be knee-deep in paisley but always keep the songs on a leash and never rely too much on nostalgic trappings.
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Alberto's lips pooched out in a sad, nostalgic smile.
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Mark sets out to discover whether the ‘golden age’ truly existed or is a smug myth perpetuated by nostalgics and the artistic and political enemies of television today.
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I'm nostalgic for the vanguard feminism of the past!
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Fisher's longing for a return to wood rackets is more than nostalgic: he says that the advances in racket technology have actually changed the nature of the game, and not for the better.
For the Love of the Game
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They spent an hour together, talking nostalgically as they wandered slowly down the coast road.
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Here, the nostalgic and the brashly new constantly collide, yet there will always be plastic bowler hats and candyfloss on sale as well as somewhere to have your fortune told.
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It rises above the hazy mist of its nostalgic premise with sharp writing, complex and unpredictable characterizations, and a dry, witty sense of humor.
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Some readers may fear that Mr. Blythe's prose is overly nostalgic and mannered.
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The immediate aftermath of the war was marked by a nostalgic return by many artists to the springs of Mediterranean culture.
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In an era of the steady, dour beat of half-court offenses and slap-happy defenses, this Carolina team sings a pretty nostalgic song.
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This looking backward and preference for bygone days involved more than nostalgic or homesick longings.
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Green flower is the indispensable element in nostalgic aura. Delicate writing is bookman heart is medium all the time love most.
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But this was not the only series that fed on viewers' appetite for nostalgic programming.
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In her art, she said she attempts to evoke the nostalgic beauty of another era.
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The music is varied, contextualising music-box melodies, razor-sharp beats and nostalgic acid-house key samples.
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Getting nostalgic he recalled the ‘good old days’ when publishing was just about printing a book and getting it into stores.
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I believe the emphasis on nostalgic reminiscence indicated anxiety about a century marked by colonialism and military dictatorship, followed by a recent sharp decline in living standards and failure of infrastructure.
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For subsequent generations of the diaspora, the cultural climate they are reared in is far more compelling a force than a romanticised India their earlier generations may be nostalgic about.
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As we grow older, we all become nostalgic for the past and Mrs Manning spoke of schooldays, family sing-songs, church concerts and so on.
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This nostalgic sentiment is obvious in both the band's choice of covers and the composition of the band's own tunes.
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A clear-voiced countertenor sings the nostalgic melody, offset by the bullfroggy bom, bom, bom bell sounds of the bassi profundi.
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Her menu, a nostalgic take on the cooking of Northern New Mexico, includes tacos, enchiladas, flautas, quesadillas and wholesome salads.
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The assertion that material conditions are determinant of social consciousness makes more practical sense than a rather nostalgic belief that the superiority of logic and reasoning could determine how society interrelates.
Materialism versus Idealism in the transformation of South Africa
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In a world where the microwave has become the magic wand of the kitchen, how welcome to read such nostalgic sentiments.
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Sexy smocked dresses, ruching detail and layers of sun-faded cotton result in a trend that's deliciously nostalgic.
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Probably the critics of modern art are nostalgic for beautiful and uplifting art like the Sistine Chapel.
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Sister Bliss's big beats aren't really the soundtrack to youth culture anymore though, rather a nostalgic reminder of pills, parties and puberty.
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For a nostalgic two hours, the rag and bone man was working the streets of Salford again.
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Remember how nostalgic people who were adults during the postwar era became when they talked about rationing?
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They are forgettable not because they are boring, but because the chorus always hits with such a wave of hummable, nostalgic melody that it overpowers them, every time.
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This album is not a nostalgic journey into late eighties dance music.
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Avoiding the nostalgic angle adopted by others, Mullinix offers his own take on the evolution of dance music.
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Individually and culturally, we are preposterously nostalgic for it.
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That the nostalgic bent can lapse into cloying sentimentality is obvious.
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They are nostalgic for the good old days of détente - superpower summits, arms control, and discussions about balancing American and Russian power in regional conflicts.
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He wanted to flee from the artifice of his fathers creation: he longed to become an autonomous adult, to be a man, not the object of nostalgic pilgrimages to a living shrine not of his making.
An Interview With Cynthia Ozick
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There were many nostalgic reunions of men who worked in the mines together, several of whom had not met since those hardworking days.
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it gave me a nostalgic vibe
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The FIA Thoroughbred Grand Prix Championship is the ultimate nostalgic motor racing pageant.
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The obituary was the usual nostalgic whitewash.
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I can only presume that even when it comes to NASA they think the public prefers nostalgic futurism to Ridley Scott.
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Schytte's Op. 28 is a truly wonderful piece full of romantic passion tinged with the occasional nostalgic shade.
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Soups, rabbit dishes, and dishes such as pot-au-feu, coq au vin, and blanquettes are often requested by pickers nostalgic for an era when long, slow cooking was the norm.
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I think our misty-eyed longing for the high streets of our youth may be overly nostalgic.
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‘And these were everywhere,’ he laments nostalgically, pointing to the Irish-looking coracle lashed under the furled rust sails.
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More prosaically, the preference for what is known underlies the pleasures of nostalgic reminiscence and the company of old friends.
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As Halloween rolls gustily around the corner, some of us might wax nostalgic for the hallowed eves of yore -- when we ate our weight in sugary sweets, dressed up in uncomfortable costumes and listened to stories that we knew would give us nightmares.
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My head is heavy, my big toe is itching and my stomach feels all nostalgic.
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A thick cloud of memories and regrets soon darkens the nostalgic glow.
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There was no lift and the stairs were steep enough to make him almost nostalgic for the paternoster.
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The poet also dreams nostalgically of bygone years and of lost childhood.
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Tell that to the thousands likely to be nostalgic for the coming-of-age movie they saw when they were young.
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Greeting to all you Montreal musicians and nostalgic reminiscers of pop music's golden ages from wherever you are.
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Her poetry is nostalgic and betrays her own longing for her beloved homeland.
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There is, after all, a tendency to interpret his position as being an advocation of simple, spontaneous relations, and a nostalgic desire for some primordial inherence in Being.
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One moment Arto sings samba gentle as a nostalgic caress, the next his guitar is like flint grinding on flint.
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Great issue, great interview, which made me very nostalgic for those days when Eddie had a website and was a publisher.
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Pretty, feminine, soft and fluid silhouettes make a new statement of nostalgic romance.
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Fittingly, Rita Sobrol Campos's photographic record of an old-time Olivetti typewriter text work, The Last Myth In The History Of Mankind, makes cryptic use of the writings of the early-20th century Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, perhaps the most self-questioning multiple-personality, spirited melancholic and forward-looking nostalgic in the entire history of world literature.
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These frontier wilderlands are the retreat of a nostalgic whimsy, and the drawing rooms of the nascent American metropolis are now invested with a minatory playfulness.
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Many of course would stop here and dismiss this inherently nostalgic call for a revalidation of the beautiful as hopelessly retrograde and unproductive.
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SHAPIRO: When you're on tour and you have a beautifully tuned Grand, do you feel a little nostalgic for this old clacker?
Blitzen Trapper: Ramshackle Roots-Rock
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Somehow the place even smelt wonderfully nostalgic.
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Shot through with mordant wit, they make you nostalgic for the days before e-mail.
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Journalists are almost nostalgic for the silly season of summers past.
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But it is not just nostalgic sentiment which is evoked by railway history in the area.
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If you're nostalgic for gin slings, parasols and fly whisks, the White House Rose Garden was the place to be last week.
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She presents characters, churches and landscapes in a naïve and nostalgic way, yet also flavoured with a bit of this kitsch.
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The nostalgic gaze sacralizes concepts, objects, forms, and states from the past and reproduces them in a present that simulates and commodifies their pastness.
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Her existence had been wiped brutally from the earth, and yet he was already thinking of her in nostalgic reminiscence.
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Vodlepussy waxed nonsensically nostalgic for fallen Tyson: "Not only a great competitor, but also somebody that kind of bridged the gap.
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It felt both humbling and a bit nostalgic to lecture, in God's providence to 240 ministerial students in the place I was once called to serve.
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All the while he watched his crowd, old nostalgics all, and wondered how many of them had been present that night, how many of them had tried to camouflage their fear under the chorus of a well known palliative song.
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The danger with such a collection is that it can degenerate into an overly nostalgic, overly fond remembrance.
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He waxes nostalgic about his life, his family, and what has happened to them over the past few months.
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Central to its ideology was a nostalgic idealization of pre-industrial society.
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The idea is to surprise them with dishes he thinks they might like based on their lives and nostalgic feelings about food.
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Nostalgic products fill a need to belong and feel socially connected, according to an Arizona State University study published in the Journal of Consumer Research last year.
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He also proposes a nostalgic return to school uniform and family values.
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The nostalgic aroma of burning turf makes for a little scene from 50 years ago in any regular country kitchen.
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Nostalgic in the way trains journeys are, Nothing Down-To-Earth seems hermetic to any interaction with the outside world, retreating instead in the closeted comfort of Beullac's imaginary world.
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The nostalgic popple lovers are outnumbering the nerdy tribble lovers .
I’m in ur cabinet bein a popple - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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True to its homesy folksy style, The Rooster has made its online edition a nostalgic experience for me.
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In Her Shoes certainly honours that tradition but in a way that makes it much more than a retro treat for movie buffs and nostalgic oldies.
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In an era of the steady, dour beat of half-court offenses and slap-happy defenses, this Carolina team sings a pretty nostalgic song.
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You may be in the begin of the long weekend, the 6 day long weekend in SL or might be caught in some other nook of the world having nostalgic recollections of the smell of Kavums, irritating cycle races, the temple lawns fiilled with people, the echoes of "suba aluth avurudhak weva" s.
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As Halloween rolls gustily around the corner, some of us might wax nostalgic for the hallowed eves of yore -- when we ate our weight in sugary sweets, dressed up in uncomfortable costumes and listened to stories that we knew would give us nightmares.
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Jeunet, who returned to France after an unsatisfying Hollywood stint on Alien: Resurrection, felt nostalgic himself for a golden age of French cinema unbeholden to the American movie juggernaut.
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He is nostalgic for a lost and very English idyll.
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Although the patrilineal descendants of the six forgot their ancestral language they retained a nostalgic remembrance of their old place.
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He also proposes a nostalgic return to school uniform and family values.
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All of which makes one nostalgic for the simplicities of the Second World War, when war correspondents on both sides were expected to be unquestioning patriots.
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I thought this pill was supposed to make you friendly, not seclusive and nostalgic.
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Designers have taken the bulk, and some of the frumpery, out of sensible tweedy fabrics to give these jackets a nostalgic, vaguely Forties or Fifties air.
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They are nostalgic for the good old days of detente - superpower summits, arms control, and discussions about balancing American and Russian power in regional conflicts.
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I also think nostalgically of National Geographic magazine tribeswomen pre-internet era porn for adolescent boys.
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Its melancholy cranes are lit at night not as a sign of vitality but as a valedictory salute to an industrial past for which most Glaswegians - particularly those who never banged a rivet - are nostalgic.
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Although we still depict nostalgic snow scenes on Christmas cards, winters are now very much warmer.
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Drawn with a relaxed ink line, scribbly shading and a mix of watercolour and gouache, the book has the slightly muted and nostalgic tones of early comics and dated toy packaging.
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One could still watch black-and-white films from the liberal pre-Nasser era on television and find ancient taxi drivers nostalgically crooning songs by Umm Kulthum or Abdel Halim Hafez.
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The overall tone of the book is gently nostalgic.
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At another, it is the nostalgic looking back to the way things were before they all went wrong, to the old time experiences of hops and hayfields, and walks down the Fulham Palace Road.
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Backed by a jaunty tune, we find the singer in a nostalgic mood reflecting on simple pleasures, now out of reach.
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To Britons of the right age, those three words conjure up all sorts of semi-nostalgic memories.
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But even today, the sight of its rear grille slicing past you in the fast lane or cutting you up on a roundabout can induce a nostalgic burst of bitterness and resentment in other road users.
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With a catchy chorus, jangly guitar and staccato drumbeats, this track sounds both ultramodern and nostalgic all at once.
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Mainly distributed in China's coastal regions, the Yangtze, Qiantang River, Pearl River, etc. , for the Anadromous migratory fish, it's highly nostalgic.
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The former apse, with its rich mosaics and stained-glass windows, was left standing, partly for nostalgic reasons, partly to hide the friary, which would have looked unsightly without it.
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Panache provides the women folk nostalgic images by reviving the art of handmade jewellery as they are now not in vogue.
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they spent an hour together, talking nostalgically as they wandered slowly down the coast road
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I shared a cab with strangers bound for the Quarter and listened to my fellow passengers wax nostalgically about past trips to New Orleans.
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Whereas in previous paintings she featured lavishly-painted structural elements of defunct worlds, in her new work Gualdoni sheds the nostalgic architectural references and authoritative facture to find meaning in the process itself.
Sharon L. Butler: NYC Gallery Visit: Angelina Gualdoni at Asya Geisberg
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There's no point in getting nostalgic.
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Emotional conflict, logical deduction and the period setting make for an entertaining, nostalgic brainteaser.
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Personally, I have a nostalgic yearning for the capsule wardrobe.
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As with Live Aid, however, a good idea will always be revived by misty-eyed nostalgics, and since British architecture has improved more than somewhat since the 1980s, why not?
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Players want longer shorts for practical reasons as much as anything and the nostalgic look is simply another trend.
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They spent an hour together, talking nostalgically as they wandered slowly down the coast road.
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Just look at the nostalgic stuff on the box.
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Here, one can experience modern sophistication, nostalgic old - world charm and multiracial magic in a single destination.
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Central to its ideology was a nostalgic idealization of pre-industrial society.
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Speaker after speaker, continued Mokoena-Harvey, nostalgically recounted their umbilical attachment to Kofifi.
