He refused that nostalgia for post-industrial communities, had us look at them in harsher light, using flash in bright sunshine, making slabs of pale British flesh look raw, characteristically dwelling on the garishness of fast food and consumer extremes.
('The factories that had been built looked temporary and insubstantial, as if they could be removed overnight,' Hines wrote. 'Even their names seemed impermanent: Styro, Eno Fabrication, PI Products.') Looks and Smiles seemed to evoke a nostalgia for old industrial communities even as The Price of Coal clearly rues the associated hardships.
Growing up in rural Pennsylvania had immunized Mr. Cox to Protestant nostalgia for small-town churchly community.
There is a sense of community and nostalgia for those days when pen and paper were our only option.
Solomon does not particularly like MacIntyre's use of traditions, in the sense that it still leaves open the nostalgia for religion and a sense of community, but goes on to admit that Aristotle did invoke a sense of community when speaking about virtues.
(She warns against too much nostalgia for the memory-happy past: "An illusion of community was created because tremendous numbers of people learned exactly the same texts").
After speaking with former students and seeing their passion and nostalgia for their year in Bologna, she knew that the community at SAIS Europe would be exceptional.
That doesn't mean they can't feel nostalgia for the four-year-old app, with many praising the staff and community of Vine.
Some of the changes associated with urbanisation were seen as positive (for example improved access to healthcare), but there was simultaneously nostalgia for the 'old days', during which time many participants believed their communities were healthier, less polluted, more physically active, with better access to nutritious food and longer life expectancies.
Out of the countryside, in new, fractured urban communities, the old traditions didn't wear well, although nostalgia for them persisted.
