All 5 Uses
nostalgia
in
Gone Girl
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- 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.†
p. 13.2 *nostalgic = with a longing for something past
- 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.†
p. 17.1
- 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.†
p. 26.7nostalgia = longing for something past
- 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.†
p. 107.6nostalgic = with a longing for something past
- My semi-sweet nostalgia for Amy disappeared.†
p. 133.7nostalgia = longing for something past
Definitions:
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(1)
(nostalgia) happiness that come with the memory of good times combined with a hint of sadness that those times are over
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)