Sentence examples for push nostalgia from inspiring English sources

The sophisticated-lady playlist can push nostalgia a step too far; raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, on the original cast recording, may not be everybody's favorite thing at dinner.

Directing "Sound City," about the recording studio of that name, now defunct, in the San Fernando Valley of California, he shows a decent grasp of how to pace a documentary and how to push nostalgia buttons, avoiding the marsh of smarminess most — though not quite all — of the time.

Because the bear with the rumbly tummy has traditionally been one of the first characters parents introduce to their children, Disney is reverting to what it does best — pushing the nostalgia button.

Disney got the word out on Phoenix-area campuses by distributing fliers with a Web address that sent them to a Facebook page, which gave screening details and was equipped with a "Toy Story" video intended to push the nostalgia button.

When they do it's because we push this nostalgia by them.

Mr. Bo, 62, was a loud, charismatic politician pushing Maoist nostalgia in a desperate attempt to get on the party's nine-person Politburo Standing Committee, which rules China by consensus.

Nostalgia pushes us toward comforting mythologies.

That is, contemporary enough to fit modern standards for children's television while still pushing their parents' nostalgia buttons.

Barbarous Rhett and Scarlett push the gracious-plantation nostalgia out of the way.

So I hit Alibaba and bought the Tie Fighter kit, a model that at once pushed all the right nostalgia buttons for me and the excitement buttons for my children and was sufficiently complex and expensive that we didn't want to order the real model.

The director of The Force Awakens, J.J. Abrams, grew up a die-hard Star Wars fan, and his "Mystery Box" mentality suggests a type of nostalgia that pushed him into being a filmmaker.