Nowadays, elegy has probably yielded to a milder nostalgia — given popular form in Julian Barnes's "Nothing to Be Frightened Of " (in which the novelist confesses to not believing in God but "missing" Him all the same), and complex form in the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor's "A Secular Age" (2007).
He had found a tone that implied pity, acceptance, and nostalgia, mild emotions that could be sustained across the arc of a narrative.
A double bill of soft rock and nostalgia, with the Philadelphia-soul harmonies and love songs of Hall and Oates and the mild-mannered, country-tinged rock of Kenny Loggins.
Listening to the buoyant young C.E.O.'s and market analysts talk about their I.P.O.'s and market caps, you may feel a vague stirring of nostalgia, accompanied by mild disbelief.
I have always been sentimental – prone to nostalgia, ill-advised loyalty, mild hoarding – but, in my younger life, I was reserved, almost staid.
The severely competitive and rampantly growing telecommunications industry is looking on the Microsoft ruling with mild interest and a touch of nostalgia at most.
In "One Mo' Time," Mr. Bagneris, who conceived, wrote and directed both shows, took a standard nostalgia-revue format and gave it a mild political twist by following its four black vaudevillians backstage.
It hits on a juncture of Pinterest-style object nostalgia, an appetite for emotive but bite-size reading, and a mild voyeurism.
At the mild end of the spectrum are the many outposts of what might be called Confederacy nostalgia, epitomized by the Confederate Museum located just a few blocks away from the Emanuel AME church.
Should I stop hating my own nostalgia, which places me here on the corner of my sadness so many years later on a mild evening, looking up into lit windows, dinnertimes not my own?
Page C1 Dining SOUTHERN CHINESE CUISINE WITH A SIDE OF NOSTALGIA In the 1970s, there was a nice little restaurant on Chatham Square in Chinatown called 456, which served mild, salty-sweet southern Chinese specialties, Sam Sifton writes.
