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  • This was such a perfect friend moment, it made her feel kind of melancholy and nostalgic.   (source)
    nostalgic = longing for something past
  • She speaks with nostalgia of the years her family had spent in England,   (source)
  • We sometimes look through our collection nostalgically, the way other families look through old photos.   (source)
  • Even some of the digitals do it for nostalgia's sake.   (source)
  • ...he found nothing that seemed worthy of his nostalgia.   (source)
    nostalgia = sentimental memories
  • attacks of nostalgia   (source)
    nostalgia = longing for something past
  • Some folks called it nostalgia and sadness.   (source)
  • But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward.   (source)
  • "Time," Doc said. He put his glasses on. "It's the only antidote for nostalgia. Just give the man time."   (source)
    nostalgia = longing for something from the past
  • [She sings nostalgically:]   (source)
    nostalgically = with a longing for something past
  • Nostalgia turned to fatigue.†   (source)
  • Could it be he was feeling a certain nostalgia for the war, despite its stench and meaningless carnage?†   (source)
  • "I mean, they're nostalgic."†   (source)
  • Had not his fascination with the past begun to smell suspiciously of nostalgia?†   (source)
  • Her parents had liked all things modern—to them, antiques were nothing but an expression of meaningless nostalgia.†   (source)
  • Looking around, I wondered why Halliday, who always claimed to have had a miserable childhood, had later become so nostalgic for it.†   (source)
  • Why don't you just get a dog after initiation if you're feeling that nostalgic?†   (source)
  • Although I enjoy my visits, not even the tempting nostalgia of the house at 80 Front Street could entice me to return to the United States.†   (source)
  • She had a low tolerance for reminiscence, bitterness or nostalgia.†   (source)
  • What might be several seconds pass, though they feel to Werner like hours, and the wind tears through the frosted grass, sending zephyrs and wisps of snow sirening off across the white, and a sudden nostalgia for Zollverein rolls through him in a wave: boyhood afternoons wandering the soot-stained warrens, towing his little sister in the wagon.†   (source)
  • When they embraced she felt against her collarbone through the fabric of his jacket a thick fountain pen, and smelled pipe smoke in the folds of his clothes, prompting a moment's nostalgia for afternoon tea visits to rooms in men's colleges, rather polite and anodyne occasions mostly, but cheery too, especially in winter.†   (source)
  • I'm nostalgic for the Hab.†   (source)
  • She leaned over my shoulder as she turned the stiff pages, looking for a certain picture but pausing to linger over others, her voice tinged with dreamy nostalgia.†   (source)
  • It was designed in the fashion of the old world, with hearty dosages of both nostalgic symbolism and state-of-the-art engineering.†   (source)
  • I guess talking about the past with Holder Saturday has left me feeling a little nostalgic.†   (source)
  • The moment aroused a whole orchestra of rich emotions among the British-pride, patriotism, nostalgia for the lost past of the war and during do, hope for a rejuvenated future… People of a certain age remember vividly to this day the moment when, as they waited on a drizzly June morning for the Coronation procession to pass by in London, they heard the magical news that the summit of the world was, so to speak, theirs.†   (source)
  • I sigh again, exaggeratedly, like just reliving all the good times we had together is making me nostalgic.†   (source)
  • It smelled of grease and oil and gasoline and — faint, nostalgic smell — sweet grass.†   (source)
  • Her expression was nostalgic.†   (source)
  • When I called the rabbi of my mother's old synagogue he spoke to me with neither nostalgia nor surprise, only grudging recognition.†   (source)
  • La cité is a grim, dust-colored homeland, and I suffer nostalgia for our life in the interior.†   (source)
  • It was her idea to publish just the sections of the Cantos which dealt with the nostalgic final days of Old Earth.†   (source)
  • I wondered nostalgically.†   (source)
  • He had served four terms; that he should serve a fifth in the year of the fair seemed fitting, and a wave of nostalgia swept the city's wards.†   (source)
  • Bob Seger, who is from Michigan, goes nostalgic for that first summer of freedom and sexual initiation in "Night Moves."†   (source)
  • These legends reflected nostalgia for a time when people spoke Sumerian, a tongue that was superior to anything that came afterward.†   (source)
  • Hoping that nostalgic childhood memories of a brand will lead to a lifetime of purchases, companies now plan "cradle-to-grave" advertising strategies.†   (source)
  • Fool, you're supposed to look at me in a fond and nostalgic way, smiling ruefully.†   (source)
  • For the most part, though, as I have said, the tone is one of nostalgia.†   (source)
  • Nostalgia?†   (source)
  • It is a line that is only a little funny, but it already has the feel of an inside joke, one that will get funnier with nostalgic repetition.†   (source)
  • A long time later we come to a town where a luminous haze which has seemed so natural over the ocean is now seen in the streets of the town, giving them a certain aura, a hazy sunny radiance that makes everything look nostalgic, as if remembered from years before.†   (source)
  • Their voices blended into a threnody of nostalgia about pain.†   (source)
  • Nadia had long been, and would afterwards continue to be, more comfortable with all varieties of movement in her life than was Saeed, in whom the impulse of nostalgia was stronger, perhaps because his childhood had been more idyllic, or perhaps because this was simply his temperament.†   (source)
  • The times had grown rare when all three were in the same place at the same time, but even the nostalgic talk didn't sound nostalgic tonight.†   (source)
  • Roran frowned at the stone resting on his palm in a pose so reminiscent of Eragon's own training that Eragon could not help feeling a flash of nostalgia for the days he spent being drilled by Brom.†   (source)
  • Such accessories, and the dust and the winds and the ever calling train whistles, add up to a "home town" that is probably remembered with nostalgia by those who have left it, and that for those who have remained, provides a sense of roots and contentment.†   (source)
  • Or had it simply been rage and nostalgia and guilt? and shame?†   (source)
  • Though I had left the island eight years before, my memories of prison were still fresh and untinged by nostalgia.†   (source)
  • Anyway-to put an end to this maudlin display of nostalgia-in the course of our conversation McMurphy and I wondered what would be the attitude of some of the men toward a carnival here on the ward?†   (source)
  • Sometimes a memory of their early marriage—his lips on hers, the touch of his hand on her waist— swept through Caroline, a bittersweet nostalgia.†   (source)
  • But then nostalgia sets in.†   (source)
  • Not, that is, the actual source of the name—that much is usually obvious: there's the Bible, there's the huge cluster of traditional English and Germanic and Italian and French names, there are princess names and hippie names, nostalgic names and place names.†   (source)
  • " With Call suddenly determined to leave that very day, Augustus found himself regretful, nostalgic already for things he hadn't particularly cared for but hated to think of losing.†   (source)
  • They're having a nostalgia dance but they're short on men.†   (source)
  • Instead, among this moonscape of boulders and blue ice, where pebbles he kicked would disappear down crevasses for seconds, before splashing into subterranean rivers, it burned with a nostalgic warmth, a beacon from the country he had once called home.†   (source)
  • The night wears on; the fire dwindles; the wind shifts and my heart aches with nostalgia—summer camps and catching lightning bugs and August skies aflame with stars.†   (source)
  • I murmured without thinking, and I felt a tear roll down my cheek and then another and another until it became a downpour of grief, a torrent of sobs, a suffocation of nostalgia and sorrow that Transito Soto had no trouble understanding, for she had long experience with the heartaches of men.†   (source)
  • 'Polish sausage,' sighed the general nostalgically.†   (source)
  • But nostalgic thoughts didn't seem to interest Snow Flower; she had simply moved on to a pair for herself, which employed purple silk trimmed with white.†   (source)
  • He feels a wash of sentimentality, a nostalgia for the present, and lets his eyes wander back and forth across the room like he might a poem he needs to memorize for an English class-wanting to remember it, every line.†   (source)
  • In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.†   (source)
  • An enormous wave of nostalgia overcomes me, and I turn away to fill the kettle, blinking slightly.†   (source)
  • She was glad to be alive, and glad to be back in Addis, but she didn't know what to make of the wave of nostalgia that overcame her, an unfulfilled longing that she could not define.†   (source)
  • A soupy nostalgia overtook them both.†   (source)
  • A walk through campus always triggered a wave of nostalgia.†   (source)
  • You make me nostalgic for the drunken philosophical conversations of my youth.†   (source)
  • "Nostalgia," the vet said.†   (source)
  • I have a kinship with the place that goes far beyond simple nostalgia.†   (source)
  • Gullberg felt a thrill of nostalgia.†   (source)
  • Even now, stripped of their opulence, crowded into two-bedroom apartments in Hialeah and Little Havana, the Puente women clung to their rituals as they did their engraved silverware, succumbing to a cloying nostalgia.†   (source)
  • "Indeed," purred Toby with dreamy nostalgia.†   (source)
  • She symbolizes the grandeur of Camelot, for which Americans are already growing nostalgic.†   (source)
  • A wordless tune that is both sad and nostalgic.†   (source)
  • In this atmosphere, a wave of nostalgia for the purity of the West and frontier values swept popular culture.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was because my family had no nostalgia for the past, no sense of responsibility to uphold a proud and carefully wrought tradition.†   (source)
  • When he opened the drawer this time, he wasn't hit with the familiar warm wave of nostalgia.†   (source)
  • It was both stony and nostalgic, the whole messy text of his homesickness.†   (source)
  • Harriet, listening to them, watching them, doubted that they could survive the winters, and thought with nostalgia of the Tidewater country, and the smell of honeysuckle and the warmth that lay over the land in the month of June, so that the fields, the earth, the woods, yielded and held heat and a thousand fragrances; even after the sun went down, the night air was warm and sweet-smelling.†   (source)
  • I snapped myself out of the bout of nostalgia and raised a brow at the woman before me.†   (source)
  • His voice remained calm, quiet, faintly nostalgic.†   (source)
  • It kept him in a dangerous stasis of nostalgia and regret and horror.†   (source)
  • If only he had been capable of more than nostalgia!†   (source)
  • When she spoke of this year, which was seldom, it was with nostalgia, as some girls spoke of a year in Europe or on the stage.†   (source)
  • All evening that music filtered down through the paper-thin ceiling, the lordly and tragic French horn mingling in my head with the flute's antiphonal, piercing birdcall to fill my spirit with a sadness and nostalgia almost more intense than any I had ever felt before.†   (source)
  • Our treasured and nostalgic picture of the village store, the cracker-barrel store where an informed yeomanry gather to express opinion and formulate the national character, is very rapidly disappearing.†   (source)
  • The word was charged with a mighty longing and a massive nostalgia.†   (source)
  • But if you're feeling nostalgic for the Whites I'm going to disappoint you.†   (source)
  • For Mary, the word "Home," spoken nostalgically, meant England, although both her parents were South Africans and had never been to England.†   (source)
  • It's just a bit of nostalgia to pass the time.†   (source)
  • He watches them with envy, or is it nostalgia?†   (source)
  • Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.†   (source)
  • The sight of this one called up no pleasant nostalgia.†   (source)
  • The kitchen smells of yeast, a nostalgic smell.†   (source)
  • A voice in my head was like: WARNING NOSTALGIA ALERT WARNING WARNING WARNING.†   (source)
  • And nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.†   (source)
  • His laughter is nostalgic, I see now, the laughter of indulgence towards his former self.†   (source)
  • The feel of it was both refreshing and somehow nostalgic, like a note from an old friend.†   (source)
  • The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence.†   (source)
  • I was becoming nostalgic for Chuck Parson.†   (source)
  • "Hi there, cork—nut," said Crake, and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like sudden hunger.†   (source)
  • Since there's no core of nostalgia this time, you might as well write it the way you want.†   (source)
  • There was no need to be nostalgic—it was always an ugly place.†   (source)
  • If there is a "later in life," I'll be happy to endure a little nostalgia.†   (source)
  • All the mailboxes have been unbolted and used to decorate the apartments of nostalgia freaks.†   (source)
  • My semi-sweet nostalgia for Amy disappeared.†   (source)
  • To bunker oneself inside nostalgia, to sheathe the heart in a bulletproof vest, was to be a coward.†   (source)
  • Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage.†   (source)
  • She might be the only person in Iowa with such vivid nostalgia for kangaroo flesh.†   (source)
  • Waking up to frigid weather felt surprisingly nostalgic.†   (source)
  • He pees on the grasshoppers, watches with nostalgia as they whir away.†   (source)
  • Murray said, "I don't trust anybody's nostalgia but my own.†   (source)
  • At the time I felt a little bitter, nostalgic for their locked and companionable world.†   (source)
  • I wonder if I'll be nostalgic about that later in life.†   (source)
  • War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.†   (source)
  • Are we being asked to regard these things nostalgically?†   (source)
  • The smell of dead fish almost made me nostalgic for the bull's head.†   (source)
  • Incredibly, he felt a wave of nostalgia for that day and wondered what Tad and Donna were doing.†   (source)
  • For as old as they were, the kids didn't often lapse into bouts of nostalgia.†   (source)
  • Max waxed nostalgic for a moment until an enormous flipper smacked him in the back of his head.†   (source)
  • Reyna might have felt nostalgic …. except that her sister stood a few feet away, facing Orion.†   (source)
  • Her expression is nostalgic and a little sad.†   (source)
  • Homelessness is not something any sane person would ever be nostalgic about.†   (source)
  • Even this gingery gold filled me with nostalgia.†   (source)
  • And for all his nostalgia, he felt no self-pity.†   (source)
  • It's too early for nostalgia," I told her.†   (source)
  • Nostalgia—that's the basic sickness, and I never heard of a doctor who can cure it.†   (source)
  • Memories are nostalgia, and nostalgia is for the weak.†   (source)
  • I became alert again as he mumbled something incomprehensible about "nostalgia for Harvard yard."†   (source)
  • Where it doesn't matter if no one affords you charity, or nostalgia for your memories.†   (source)
  • Maybe if you'd done it as a kid, it was all nostalgia, and that was the appeal.†   (source)
  • That brought with it a change of thought — imagineering giving way to nostalgia.†   (source)
  • "Well," he said, quietly, "sometimes I'm nostalgic, too, Ida."†   (source)
  • That process of nostalgia was also evident in the pictures.†   (source)
  • He was starting to feel nostalgic about the monsters he'd fought in Rome.†   (source)
  • A pornography of nostalgia, maybe, or was it something else completely?†   (source)
  • Once more, and with a nostalgia akin to love, Tomas thought of the tall, stooped editor.†   (source)
  • When Max did not respond, Madam Petra gave a nostalgic smile.†   (source)
  • The only word that evoked in her a sweet, nostalgic memory of her homeland was the word cemetery.†   (source)
  • His nostalgia disappeared with the mist and left an immense curiosity in its place.†   (source)
  • No waxing nostalgic until the twentieth.†   (source)
  • The film launched me back into a bucket of tears' worth of nostalgia and reminiscing.†   (source)
  • In my flurry of nostalgic spite, I have done the Monterey Peninsula a disservice.†   (source)
  • —an intricate sweet trill of piercing nostalgia and miraculous symmetry.†   (source)
  • But now it was without nostalgia or desire.†   (source)
  • Because we really haven't spent much time together in a while and now we're all leaving…… " She droned on and on, and I was sure the sudden return of our friendship was due to graduation nostalgia and gratitude for the party invite, not that I'd had anything to do with that.†   (source)
  • He remembers with nostalgia the clatter of Dora's dustpan; he has gained a new respect for the Doras of this world, but although he longs for such household problems to resolve themselves, he has no idea how this may be accomplished.†   (source)
  • Not one, not two, but many wars, both big and small, just and unjust, wars with shifting casts of supposed heroes and villains, each new hero making one increasingly nostalgic for the old villain.†   (source)
  • He feels no nostalgia for the vacations he's spent with his family, and he realizes now that they were never really true vacations at all.†   (source)
  • To a growing boy, old, yellowed books were nothing more than nostalgia, and his new experiences at school were much more interesting.†   (source)
  • I was experiencing nostalgia for the life I'd had before, which I would lose at any second, when the world turned and began to devour itself.†   (source)
  • The two cousins saw each other often and spent endless hours feeling nostalgia for the time when they first met.†   (source)
  • All the same, a bitterly powerful wave of nostalgia swept over him, and the physical craving for a drink seemed to work itself up from his belly to his throat to his mouth and nose, shriveling and wrinkling the tissues as it went, making them cry out for something wet and long and cold.†   (source)
  • Even then, it was mainly a nostalgia thing, and today, if I happen to get the tape out and look at it, it brings back memories of that afternoon in Norfolk every bit as much as it does our Hailsham days.†   (source)
  • Could one possibly accuse him of nostalgia or idleness, of wasting his time simply because he had read the story two or three times before?†   (source)
  • Kattler is disappointed by how fast the idealism of 1989 vanished, but feels little nostalgia for the old East Germany.†   (source)
  • Admittedly, she does not at any point in her letter state explicitly her desire to return; but that is the unmistakable message conveyed by the general nuance of many of the passages, imbued as they are with a deep nostalgia for her days at Darlington Hall.†   (source)
  • Nostalgia.†   (source)
  • I delved about in the hamper, narrowly saving myself from toppling into it head first, and fished out what I thought I could carry, avoiding nostalgia for the undergarments of yesteryear.†   (source)
  • Though this part of the palace was more modern, less nostalgic, Cinder still noticed a squat Buddha sculpture with a cheery face off the pathway.†   (source)
  • Maybe Hana's feeling nostalgic too, because she suddenly comes out with, "Remember all our plans for this summer?†   (source)
  • The look of a man who's come to see What Might Have Been is full of both bloodshed and nostalgia; should Owen succumb to his fever, Mr. Morrison looked ready to play the part.†   (source)
  • Or be nostalgic about bad things.†   (source)
  • The book is a nostalgia item, intended to be purchased by women who grew up with Amazing Amy, but I'm not sure who will actually want to read it.†   (source)
  • Tyrena pointed out that the timing had been perfect… that the original trauma shock of the death of Old Earth had meant a century of denial, almost as if Earth had never existed, followed by a period of revived interest culminating in the Old Earth nostalgia cults which could now be found on every world in the Web.†   (source)
  • However, she was going to learn very soon that her drastic decision was not so much the fruit of resentment as of nostalgia.†   (source)
  • So it was in this instance; that is to say, my receiving the letter from Miss Kenton, containing as it did, along with its long, rather unrevealing passages, an unmistakable nostalgia for Darlington Hall, and - I am quite sure of this - distinct hints of her desire to return here, obliged me to see my staff plan afresh.†   (source)
  • When you come across old students from Hailsham, you always find them, sooner or later, getting nostalgic about their collections.†   (source)
  • It is a cafe they've been to before, and he feels the slight nostalgia it is sometimes possible to feel at the end of an extended stay in a foreign place, taking in the details that will soon evaporate from his mind: the surly waiter who has served them both times, the view of the shops across the street, the green and yellow straw chairs.†   (source)
  • Lacey offered me a ride, but I decided to clean out my locker, because I didn't really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia.†   (source)
  • Reading these letters at the end of an exhausting day, Briony felt a dreamy nostalgia, a vague yearning for a long-lost life.†   (source)
  • About fifty miles from Moscow in Tuchkovo, the young Prince resumes his life; and for the most part, he does so without resentment, indignation, or nostalgia.†   (source)
  • I do not know what I expectedartifacts perhaps, nostalgic mementos of our hundred and three days together-perhaps a pressed flower from some forgotten offering or the frenchhorn conch we dove for off Fevarone.†   (source)
  • But I would still maintain there is more than a hint of nostalgic longing in certain parts of her letter, particularly when she writes such things as: 'I was so fond of that view from the second-floor bedrooms overlooking the lawn with the downs visible in the distance.'†   (source)
  • One day he might bring home a friend for Cecilia to marry, if three years at Girton had not made her an impossible prospect, with her pretensions to solitude, and smoking in the bedroom, and her improbable nostalgia for a time barely concluded and for those fat girls in glasses from New Zealand with whom she had shared a set, or was it a gyp?†   (source)
  • However, when she thought he was completely erased from her memory, he reappeared where she least expected him, a phantom of her nostalgia.†   (source)
  • I'd been there since then without Amy (my nostalgic streak uncrushable) and had a glorious day, a wide-grin, right-with-the-world day.†   (source)
  • He didn't want to attend his father's alma mater, and live in an apartment in Central Square as his parents once had, and revisit the streets about which his parents speak nostalgically.†   (source)
  • It was not the memories of St. Petersburg that affected him so—not some nostalgia for his youth among the rose-hued facades, or for his years with Mishka in the apartment above the cobbler's.†   (source)
  • Already it felt like old time's sake, already it felt like nostalgia — something they were too grown-up for, like middle-aged guys cruising the pleebland teeny clubs.†   (source)
  • We were thinking of introducing a board game night, even though most of our customers were too old to be nostalgic for our Hungry Hungry Hippos, our Game of Life with its tiny plastic cars to be filled with tiny plastic pinhead spouses and tiny plastic pinhead babies.†   (source)
  • And though various older forms had dragged on — the TV sitcom, the rock video — their audience was ancient and their appeal mostly nostalgic.†   (source)
  • They were Bombay's "B" efforts at best, commercial failures and quite a few famous flops, burnished again by the dim light of nostalgia.†   (source)
  • In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.†   (source)
  • But nostalgia only lasts so long.†   (source)
  • Then, overcome by nostalgia, she dared to recall for the first time the illusory days of that unreal love.†   (source)
  • Sundays were our days to eat too much and give in to nostalgia, to take the carom board out of the coat closet, to sit cross-legged on dhurries and matchmake marriages for adolescent cousins or younger siblings.†   (source)
  • That is why he evoked with such great nostalgia the old trolley with its emaciated mules covered with sores, in which a sideways glance was all one needed to know where love was.†   (source)
  • The ruin is built into the creation, I said, which shows a certain nostalgia behind the power principle, or a tendency to organize the longings of future generations.†   (source)
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