All 6 Uses
nostalgia
in
Jasmine, by Bharati Mukherjee
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- She might be the only person in Iowa with such vivid nostalgia for kangaroo flesh.†
p. 125.1nostalgia = longing for something past
- She had a low tolerance for reminiscence, bitterness or nostalgia.†
p. 131.6
- At the time I felt a little bitter, nostalgic for their locked and companionable world.†
p. 134.1nostalgic = with a longing for something past
- They were Bombay's "B" efforts at best, commercial failures and quite a few famous flops, burnished again by the dim light of nostalgia.†
p. 144.6 *nostalgia = longing for something past
- 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.†
p. 146.9
- To bunker oneself inside nostalgia, to sheathe the heart in a bulletproof vest, was to be a coward.†
p. 185.9
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)