When present-day nostalgia involves homesickness for a period of time or a way of life that is gone for good, it's time to follow the example of 19th century military commanders and stop fostering longings for the past that produce "mental dejection" about our prospects for the future.
Uncompromisingly unsentimental, Tracy is an angry girl who ricochets between a children's home known as the "dumping ground" and foster parents, longing for her inadequate mother, and severely testing potential substitutes.
Still, in that rare moment of silence and solitude, I felt convinced that a society of such material plenitude would eventually foster spiritual longings that could not be appeased by the mere accumulation of goods — a historical lesson that may be useful to remember as Hong Kong hurtles, as apparently heedlessly as ever, toward the future.
So we got the spectacle of a GOP-led House hearing on contraception that didn't have any women on the panel, and were treated to Santorum supporter Foster Friess' nostalgic longing for the days when "gals" used to put Bayer aspirin between their knees for contraception.
The Uighurs fear that their culture is being destroyed, and that they will eventually become a minority in their own region.In this section The real enemy within Glimpse of a troubled land South Korea's workers return to the streets So, to the polls The scramble at the ballot box ReprintsCulture and religion foster the Uighurs' longings for independence.
Gennaro can no longer contain his longing for his foster sister.
Surely my foster parents would notice such longing and understand how my life would change for the better if I just had those purple hip-huggers and that game of Clue.
Together they foster a curious kind of longing for the Clintons, not just because the couple inhabited the White House during the last era of outsize prosperity and not just because they still had so much boomer vitality left when they left, bound for Chappaqua but not obscurity.
On the other hand, a decade of chaos has fostered, among average Russians, a longing for order that could legitimize a new and lethal despotism under Putin.
