Sentence examples for object of nostalgia from inspiring English sources

The loss of her home has simply provided her with one more object of nostalgia.

It was bracing and sobering, a reminder that you, yourself, have become an object of nostalgia, a pile of data for the next generation to download.

Nostalgia, in other words, is built into moviegoing, which is why moviegoing itself has been, almost from the beginning, the object of nostalgia.

This "Robin Hood" is an instant object of nostalgia, leaping backwards, over the movie-movie bedazzlement of the pop-culture aficionados, to the verities of the fathers.

You can even stream the track on an online widget that looks like a cassette, another object of nostalgia that's experienced a resurgence this year.

As an object of adulation, "Vertigo" is also an object of nostalgia, an allegory for the very cinematic manipulations of the grand studio era, of which Hitchcock was a master (albeit a master in thrall).

That is why cities are prime objects of nostalgia in our very nostalgic age.

Those dirty, thankless factory jobs have become objects of nostalgia, Mike LeFevre's daily humiliations have been transformed in memory into blue-collar male pride.

Its specific hurts become less acute, and its ephemera -- silk stockings and veiled hats, boxy automobiles and charming rural towns -- become objects of nostalgia.

Movies about Cuba like "Buena Vista Social Club" turn the jalopies into objects of nostalgia by panning lovingly over a wheel-less Chrysler here or a Plymouth stalled in traffic there.

The only movie in which James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart appeared together, Raoul Walsh's "The Roaring Twenties," from 1939 (on TCM May 8th at 8 P.M. E.T ., looks back at rum-running gangsters as quaint and curious objects of nostalgia.