All 21 Uses of
nostalgia
in
Love in the Time of Cholera
- But that pestilence so frequently idealized by nostalgia became an unbearable reality when the carriage began to lurch through the quagmire of the streets where buzzards fought over the slaughterhouse offal as it was swept along by the receding tide.†
Chpt 1
- They met afterward in the laboratory, she found him brooding and nostalgic, and thought it was because of the brutal scenes of wounded men dying in the mud.†
Chpt 1
- 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.†
Chpt 2
- But when he stood at the railing of the ship and saw the white promontory of the colonial district again, the motionless buzzards on the roofs, the washing of the poor hung out to dry on the balconies, only then did he understand to what extent he had been an easy victim to the charitable deceptions of nostalgia.†
Chpt 3
- ...he found nothing that seemed worthy of his nostalgia.
Chpt 3 *nostalgia = sentimental memories
- The lighthouse was always a blessed refuge in a storm, which he evoked with nostalgia in the dawn of his old age when he had everything settled, because it was a good place to be happy, above all at night, and he thought that something of his loves from that time flashed out to the sailors with every turn of the light.†
Chpt 4
- 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.†
Chpt 4
- Most of them had been dismantled for materials to be used in building other boats, but many were in such good condition that it seemed possible to give them a coat of paint and launch them without frightening away the iguanas or disturbing the foliage of the large yellow flowers that made them even more nostalgic.†
Chpt 4
- He still had the nostalgic memory of his youth, his vivid recollection of the Poetic Festival, whose thunder sounded throughout the Antilles every April 15.†
Chpt 4
- From time to time, when they came home from a wild fiesta, the nostalgia crouching behind the door would knock them down with one blow of its paw, and then there would be a marvelous explosion in which everything was the way it used to be and for five minutes they were once again the uninhibited lovers of their honeymoon.†
Chpt 4
- He went back to his native country as if it were one of those little trips one takes from time to time to ward off nostalgia, and at the bottom of that appearance there was some truth: for a long time he had boarded ships from his country just to drink a glass of water from the cisterns filled with the rains of the village where he was born.†
Chpt 4
- However, when she thought he was completely erased from her memory, he reappeared where she least expected him, a phantom of her nostalgia.†
Chpt 4
- While more recent events blurred in just a few days, the memories of her legendary journey through Cousin Hildebranda's province were as sharp as if they had happened yesterday, and they had the perverse clarity of nostalgia.†
Chpt 4
- However, she was going to learn very soon that her drastic decision was not so much the fruit of resentment as of nostalgia.†
Chpt 5
- Fermina Daza was so depressed by what she had seen and heard since she left her house that for the rest of the trip she took no pleasure in the memory of her earlier trip, as she had longed to do, but instead she avoided passing through the villages of her nostalgia.†
Chpt 5
- So he went without notifying her after an exchange of letters with Hildebranda, in which it was made clear that his wife was filled with nostalgia: now she thought only of home.†
Chpt 5
- Then, overcome by nostalgia, she dared to recall for the first time the illusory days of that unreal love.†
Chpt 6
- The two cousins saw each other often and spent endless hours feeling nostalgia for the time when they first met.†
Chpt 6
- On her last visit, Hildebranda was more nostalgic than ever, and very affected by the burden of old age.†
Chpt 6
- But he knew that any conventional slip, the slightest nostalgic indiscretion, could revive the unpleasant taste of the past in her heart, and although he foresaw her returning a hundred letters to him before she dared open the first, he preferred that it not happen even once.†
Chpt 6
- Fermina Daza sat motionless until dawn, thinking about Florentino Ariza, not as the desolate sentinel in the little Park of the Evangels, whose memory did not awaken even a spark of nostalgia in her, but as he was now, old and lame, but real: the man who had always been within reach and whom she could never acknowledge.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(nostalgia) happiness that come with the memory of good times combined with a hint of sadness that those times are over