Sentence examples for expression of nostalgia from inspiring English sources

The Pan Am TV look with its pillbox hats and white gloves is a chic and unabashed expression of nostalgia.

Scheijen thinks that this new passion of Diaghilev's was partly an expression of nostalgia for his homeland, so beset at that time.

Depending on your point of view, the Times Building can thus be read as a poignant expression of nostalgia or a reassertion of the paper's highest values as it faces an uncertain future.

Weinberg was not only describing a new form of scientific research; his concept was an expression of nostalgia for "Little Science," a world of independent, individual researchers free to work alone or with graduate students on problems of their own choosing.

Similarly, Goldsmith's status as an exile heightens his expressions of nostalgia in his long poem The Deserted Village (1770).

For some, she writes, "objections to the possibility of deeply meaningful digital narrative forms" are rooted in "empty expressions of nostalgia for older media artifacts".

That film's title refers to a Talleyrand remark about pre-1789 Frande, and is an expression of the nostalgia which its protagonist (and Bertolucci surrogate) feels for his bourgeois present.

Even more arresting was a very slow, intense "Moon River," which transformed this folksy expression of wistful nostalgia into the vow of an artist gazing at the moon's reflection in the water to someday be "crossing you in style".

In its capital at least, Bhutan, sad to say, is becoming more like everywhere else.GNH, in one sense, is an expression of that nostalgia, and an appeal for alertness about what might be lost under the incoming tide of modernity.

I felt plenty of reservations as I left the theater, but I made my peace with them by accepting Ready Player One as the ultimate expression of geek nostalgia, with all the virtues and the limitations that implies.

No wonder, it is difficult to avoid expressions of "autocratic nostalgia" among the older generation.