Along with a preoccupation in literature with death and damnation, there appeared a contrasting refinement of expression and sentiment bred of nostalgia for the courtly, chivalric ideal.
Five years later, in Schnitzler's first theatrical success, "Anatol," the eponymous dandy echoed this sentiment — or, rather, lack of sentiment — adding a glaze of nostalgia in the process: There I was at the piano.
When they shut most of 183-mile network of the "Muddle & Get Nowhere" in 1959, it was the biggest single railway closure yet seen in Britain and since then the railway has acquired an almost mythical status – hard to appreciate unless you can understand that curious cocktail of nostalgia, sentiment and overwhelming sense of loss that fuels railway enthusiasm.
Hence the "special relationship" between the two countries, so much on display in London this week -- a rich and unique amalgam of sentiment and nostalgia, but also of realism and realpolitik, which reached its apogee in the wartime alliance of Roosevelt and Churchill, but which has been regularly refreshed and renewed, by Macmillan and Kennedy, Thatcher and Reagan, and now by Blair and Bush.
Andrew Hampp of Billboard echoed Unterberger's sentiments, saying "The nostalgia of Cam's return trumps the overall catchiness of the song".
Despite his revulsion to any sort of sentiment or nostalgia, Sherlock's speech was at times quite touching and he revealed just how much John means to him.
What distinguishes Oakeshott from organic folk conservatives is that he has not a trace of sentiment or nostalgia for an old, authentic order.
"We figured that nostalgia is a recurring sentiment in most of the photos included, so let's create the 'corner of nostalgia,' only with pictures that relate to that theme," says Obniski.
Out of nostalgia for Ilan.
