Sentence examples for sentimental nostalgia from inspiring English sources

This is a book of unabashed, sentimental nostalgia, a son's tribute to his father.

They are her true forebears, yet Hadid does not, like some architects today, approach early-modern architecture with sentimental nostalgia.

But it is the paintings that push her installations beyond the sentimental nostalgia of the heritage industry, or the patronising collective therapy of the community artist.

This pilgrimage was known as going "doon the watter", a phrase that persists as sentimental nostalgia; the phenomenon it describes is long gone.

Dwan's movie depicts these shows, lavishly and with sentimental nostalgia, even while emphasizing that Foster didn't intend to mock black performers but to pay homage to them.

"Maybe it's just foolish and sentimental nostalgia on my part," he said, "but somehow one likes to think that the republic of letters actually deserves the recognition of a separate country".

For Araki, Eros is everything, an erotic tinged with words we find difficult, the taboo words "sentimental" and "nostalgia".

Brooklyn is a robust drama with big flavours, forthright supporting turns from Jim Broadbent and Julie Walters and a teaspoonful of syrup, a tiny weakness for sentimental period-nostalgia.

But Jobson – who speaks scathingly about the sentimental cocoon of nostalgia – also believes his story has crucial modern parallels.

They're joined by their onetime KGB enemy, the lovable Ivan Brian Coxx), and a sentimental orgy of nostalgia for the good old days of the cold war ensues.

I have always been sentimental – prone to nostalgia, ill-advised loyalty, mild hoarding – but, in my younger life, I was reserved, almost staid.