All 7 Uses
nostalgia
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- It had been the nostalgia-yellow of the Yellow Cab that the group had first spotted, parked along the shoulder of a road in Pennsylvania, nyc taxi, it read on the car door.
p. 7.5nostalgia = connected to sentimental memories of the past
- They were more nostalgic than we expected, their stuttering brains set to favor the heirloom china, set to arrange and rearrange their aunts' and grandmothers' jars of pickles and preserves in endless patterns of peach, green bean, and cherry, to play records and CDs and cassette tapes they once must have enjoyed.
p. 28.6
- The nostalgia of it hit me all at once.
p. 103.1nostalgia = connection to sentimental memories of the past
- Readers wrote in asking for pictures and dispatches from their old neighborhoods, their friends' apartments, nostalgic sites.
p. 110.2nostalgic = connected to sentimental memories of the past
- Our eyes have become nearsighted with nostalgia, staring at our computer screen. Because being online is equivalent to living in the past.
p. 115.1nostalgia = longing for something past
- Don’t you think it’s strange Ashley became fevered in her childhood house? It's like nostalgia has something to do with it.
p. 143.9 *
- I'm saying, what if nostalgia triggers it?
p. 144.1
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)