All 8 Uses of
nostalgia
in
White Noise, by Don DeLillo
- Fool, you're supposed to look at me in a fond and nostalgic way, smiling ruefully.†
Part 1 *nostalgic = with a longing for something past
- Are we being asked to regard these things nostalgically?†
Part 3
- I had the curious thought that these men were nostalgic for black-and-white, their longings dominated by achromatic values, personal extremes of postwar urban gray.†
Part 3
- 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.†
Part 3nostalgia = longing for something past
- Murray said, "I don't trust anybody's nostalgia but my own.†
Part 3
- Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage.†
Part 3
- The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence.†
Part 3
- War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.†
Part 3
Definition:
happiness that come with the memory of good times combined with a hint of sadness that those times are over