The phrase 'elicit nostalgia' is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to describe how something can evoke strong memories, emotional reactions, and feelings of longing for the past. For example: The smell of freshly baked cookies always elicits nostalgia for my grandmother's kitchen.
Closer to Pop than formalist abstraction, his paintings elicit nostalgia for the Wonder Bread years of the baby boomers, when pure, clean design meant progress and prosperity.
Sedikides and Wildschut, along with other researchers in the field, have also done pilot testing with large group populations identifying melodies and lyrics in songs which elicit nostalgia – contrasted carefully with songs that elicit cheerfulness or happiness.
Frankly, the Meteor line's main effect on me is to elicit nostalgia for the 15 other lines of the Metropolitain system, that Chanel-and-Gauloise-scented labyrinth of murky tunnels, with its tumescent Art Nouveau entranceways, its gray mice scampering beneath the rails and its gypsy accordionists.
Her name doesn't elicit nostalgia, because she didn't allow herself to be tied to any particular moment in history.
It has a retro feel, eliciting nostalgia for Super Nintendo, and hooks up easily with both iOS and Android devices.
Reliving those experiences by reading about them from a more primary resource than, say, from the point of view of a reflective adult, elicits nostalgia, at the very least.
And Mr. Sovelove, who describes himself as a friend of Mr. Paschal's, said the farm would probably never elicit any nostalgia from Mine Hill residents.
Its role is to elicit romance, nostalgia, lust, joy, righteous anger, a kind of readymade, fist-pumping pathos, or any combination of these sufficient to a given social function.
There are personal reminiscences, Yiddish theater history and family fun — all calculated to evoke nostalgia, elicit a tear and provoke a laugh.
Among some older (though not necessarily more mature) members of its target audience, the movie may elicit stirrings of nostalgia, not only for the sticky, hormone-addled time of life it evokes but also for the dumb, cheesy summertime farces that flourished in the late 1970's and early 80's.
Gay stereotypes, which, in this day and age, are relevant enough to be funny but outdated enough to be innocuous, seemed to elicit a kind of nostalgia from the group.
