Sentence examples for nostalgic to from inspiring English sources

The phrase "nostalgic to" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward
It can be used when expressing a feeling of nostalgia directed towards a specific person, place, or time. Example: "The old photographs were nostalgic to her, reminding her of her childhood."

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It is nostalgic to read about the fall of crony capitalism in Ukraine five years ago.

But it is not merely nostalgic to respect earlier conceptions of happiness.

Who knew Memorial Day could make us nostalgic to remember a day when sports corruption wasn't quite so blatant?

It isn't (simply) nostalgic to talk about the end of film; it's about opening our eyes to our new world of moving-image entertainment.

I don't like the word nostalgic; to me, it's a sloppy yearning for the past, and I'm not trying to do that in that song.

It was, rather, a neat compression of a worldview, a reminder that jazz traditionalism needn't be stagnant or nostalgic to communicate integrity, along with a firm sense of self.

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If anything, the book is anti-nostalgic to a fault, written in a trenchant epigrammatic style peppered with irresistible Yiddishisms and memorably terse statements.

The new podcast "Making Obama," from WBEZ Chicago, hosted by Jenn White and produced by Colin McNulty, helps the Obama-nostalgic to push past wistfulness and despair by reacquainting us with who Obama was before he became mythologized — and to see what lessons we can glean from the making of political leaders.

I understand I'm in the minority, and I don't mean to be nostalgic, or to overly romanticize the past.

Singer-songwriter Willy Vlautin continues to play the nostalgic drifter to a melodramatic tee.

What they have in common is that they are tapping into a nostalgic yearning to go back to basics.

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