Sentence examples for evident nostalgia from inspiring English sources

Mr Putin's xenophobia, and his evident nostalgia for the Soviet Union, are designed to deflect the blame for Beslan and to pacify influential hardliners.

Tanizaki's longest novel, Sasameyuki (1943 48; The Makioka Sisters), evoked with evident nostalgia the Japan of the 1930s, when people were preoccupied not with the prosecution of a war but with marriage arrangements, visits to sites famous for their cherry blossoms, or the cultural differences between Tokyo and Ōsaka.

In spite of its evident nostalgia for the cruder sexual politics of bygone days, the movie is as innocuous as it is pointless, and Mr. Allen's lame attempts at Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder wit are as clumsy as Santo Loquasto's period sets are meticulous (Scott).

That has been the preferred post-9/11 stance, and there is some evident nostalgia in "Charlie Wilson's War" for the simpler world of the 1980s, when the bad guys flew MIGs and American political life was perhaps a touch less sanctimonious.

Packing?" So fluent are McCarty and his fellow-recollectors, and so evident is Nelson's nostalgia for a fervid era, that anyone wanting a balanced account of the Panthers' exploits may find the film more rousing than reliable.

The presence of nostalgia is evident in the production, too, as the heavy use of filters and reverb makes Paulus's vocals sound like a distant memory, gradually ebbing away into the ether.

"The nostalgia aspect is evident — we're feeling ephemeral and remembering wistfully a time when we made things.

We too are in nostalgia mode at present, evident in countless variations on modernist painting in all kinds of flavors: figurative, abstract, expressionist, geometric.

That's also evident from a streak of hometown nostalgia on "Cruel Summer" — when his future pursuits aren't occupying his mind, his past is.

But even so, his nostalgia for his childhood is evident.

Stern's stories are suffused with nostalgia for this lost world, evident in the loving and at times exhausting detail in which he renders it.