Sentence examples for desperate nostalgia from inspiring English sources

In looking at the recent Tea Party surges in GOP primaries, it increasingly strikes me that there's a desperate nostalgia playing itself out in the country.

We are driven to fits of desperate nostalgia about summer days when the breeze billowed in the curtains, absolving us of the obligation to air-condition, and the lemony light pouring through the windows was soft and benign.

Jammed between the righteousness of punk's Rock Against Racism and the multiracial cool of 2 Tone, Oi was a fizzing mess of contradictions - combining self-parody with wilful ignorance and a desperate nostalgia for an absurdly archaic music hall version of East End proletarianism.

A company called Pearlfisher are responsible for this particular scheme, and are promising to donate £1 to children's charity Right to Play for every grown-ass adult who takes time out of their working day to go and wallow in their pit of desperate nostalgia and craven, perverted infantilism.

A company called Pearlfisher is responsible for this particular scheme, and are promising to donate £1 to children's charity Right to Play for every grown-ass adult who takes time out of their working day to go and wallow in their pit of desperate nostalgia and craven, perverted infantilism.

Isn't this some desperate cabaret of nostalgia?

For while Kinkade's work is at best humdrum and technically adequate, its popularity tells us something about his public, about a desperate yearning for nostalgia that pervades parts of American life, a return to the safe glow of some imagined past.

What they inherited were the bitter myths of their parents' past, untempered by any of their parents' nostalgia or desperate gratitude.

Small wonder mass culture is trapped in an endless nostalgia loop, desperate to clamour back into our 1980s Eden.

Small wonder mass culture is trapped in an endless nostalgia loop, desperate to clamor back into our 1980s Eden.

The outcome is a strangely sundered one, torn between the claims of nostalgia and a desperate bid to seduce the YouTube generation.