Sentence examples for faintly nostalgic from inspiring English sources
can bring on a faintly nostalgic twinge.
"It was sort of a dream dress," my mother said, sounding just faintly nostalgic.
November 28 2012 Clean lines and cool colors predominate at Christie's auction of American art on Nov. 28, led by Edward Hopper's "October on Cape Cod," a crisp, faintly nostalgic depiction of a New England cottage under a pale-lilac sky.
Set in London during the Blitz, the film is already a faintly nostalgic look back at unity in the face of adversity, with Hayworth as the inexplicably American headliner of a Soho revue troupe proud of never having missed a performance despite the nightly bombing raids.
Moaning about the world (especially with a faintly nostalgic tone) is a staple of popular non-fiction (for example, Is it Just Me or is Everything Shit?: The Encyclopedia of Modern Life), and has even spawned a set of TV series (Grumpy Old Men/Women/etc).
The title story establishes the cosmopolitan, faintly nostalgic atmosphere that permeates Marciano's prose.
But the nostalgic architecture and faintly awkward nationalism of the pavilions in the Biennale Gardens give Venice a unique flavour that still makes it the most charismatic of art festivals.
While the exterior is almost poignantly nostalgic, the interior is only faintly so.
On that first tired morning back home in California, I thought of the dozens of pairs of hands that each box passed through — grumpy hands, tired hands, gentle hands — all so that I could brew a nostalgic cup of chai and don gilded headwear scented faintly with cardamom.
