Several officials noted that some officials in the Bush administration had begun to express a nostalgia for Mr. Musharraf, who has largely been pushed to the sidelines since his party lost elections in February.
Yet more than a few in Marjayoun today might express a nostalgia for the time and place the Ottoman Empire represented, when Marjayoun's traders ventured to Arish on the coast of the Sinai Peninsula and down the Nile to Sudan, by way of Palestine.
But mostly the poems of work express a nostalgia.
Nearly two decades after settling in, Miller wrote "Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch," a collection of fond, philosophical sketches that expressed a nostalgia for the place born of his fear that Big Sur's magic could only wane as more people came to visit.
The artist has said the aim of his work is not to express a simple nostalgia for the past.
When I met him, back in the nineteen-nineties, he expressed a bittersweet nostalgia for life in the United States.
But even as it expresses a general nostalgia for the premodern business of show-making, "Around a Small Mountain" also explores more specific forms of melancholy.
Those who were likely to spend a much longer term in New South Wales, as the colony was then known, expressed a profound nostalgia for "home".
The second is a poignant letter from Dodgson to Alice after her marriage -- one of only 11 letters from him to her that are known to have survived, and the only one still in private hands -- expressing a wistful nostalgia for the old days and inviting her to tea anytime, adding, pitifully, that "to a prisoner in his cell, all days are alike".
But a sampling of theatergoers attending the last three plays of the season found them wishing the theater would forget about being different, with many expressing a palpable nostalgia for the musical revivals, once the staple of the Paper Mill. "We like the old stuff, the musicals," said Mary Jane Goudreau of Randolph, who has been a subscriber for the last eight years.
Catherine Zuber, who won a Tony Award last week for their design, said that Mrs. Johnson's luxuriantly draped suits, the younger women's crinoline-skirted sundresses and even the poetically billowing white shirt of Fabrizio, Clara's suitor, were meant to "express a mood of wistful nostalgia and of hope, the guiding forces of the period and of the play".
