nostalgia
IPA: nɔstˈæɫdʒʌ
noun
- (now uncommon) A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.
- (transferred sense) A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.
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Examples of "nostalgia" in Sentences
- The thought of it reawakened nostalgia.
- In this sense, it is a type of nostalgia.
- It's the nostalgia that's hard to swallow.
- English homesickness is a loan translation of nostalgia.
- The sence of longing and nostalgia needs to be drawn out.
- Homesickness can't be translated as nostalgia in Portuguese.
- A combination of novelty and nostalgia seems to be the selling point.
- The foregoing should not be taken as nostalgia for the Soviet system.
- Cynicism and ridicule punctuate the nostalgia and parody of Seanbaby.com.
- In this sense, it is a type of nostalgia, in the original sense of that word.
- The nostalgia is unconscious, flickering through only in the shape of a lone apricot tree on an embankment, so foreign in Berlin's northern latitudes.
- As the descriptions of Brewer, that "torpid hive," or any look at Updike's writings would suggest, this nostalgia is inevitably complicated by darker realities.
- 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.
- While acknowledging that indulging in nostalgia is itself a separate realm of lameness, let me ask, Which is lamer: being too young to remember a given period and then getting the nostalgia wrong, or not being too young but having been so out of touch with popular culture that subsequent attempts at nostalgia are woefully inaccurate?
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