![]() These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'nostalgia.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Sarah Zlotnick, Country Living, 27 Jan. 2022 Its rustic, nostalgia-inducing décor, mind-blowing lake views, and nightly bonfire are well worth the trip. 2022 Meanwhile, Hilton looked to nostalgia for inspiration with her Halloween costume, sharing photos Saturday of herself dressed as Sailor Moon, while husband Carter Reum complemented her as Sailor's boyfriend Tuxedo Mask. 2022 Adding to that nostalgia is the fact that Burrow wore this jersey for the first time it was worn since Chase and Burrow tore it up for LSU in the Superdome. 2023 In 2022, cassettes are a niche format, driven mostly by nostalgia and a love of retro tech and older music. 2023 Lovers & Friends Festival is leaning further into early 2000s nostalgia that TikTok’s fashion influencers for the 2023 iteration of the Las Vegas music event. 2023 While some collectors were undoubtedly led by nostalgia, there’s a decidedly mercenary side to Disney Parks swag, which can fetch outlandish prices on secondhand markets. Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023 Newcomers to Austin fall prey to this nostalgia almost instantly-and, with a longtime resident like me, the symptoms can become comically acute. Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Feb. Recent Examples on the Web The project, which dips into the late ’90s nostalgia, is in the earliest stages of development, and talent deals have yet to be fully hammered out, according to sources. ![]() He was filled with nostalgia for his college days. In This Quiet Dust and Other Writings, 1982Ī wave of nostalgia swept over me when I saw my childhood home. Only once in his career did MacArthur lead as small a body of men as a company-one somehow feels that the idea of MacArthur, even as a boy, in command of anything less than a division verges on the ludicrous … - William Styron, "MacArthur," 8 Oct. 2007 My own feelings were that since I'd jettisoned employment, marriage, nostalgia and swampy regret, I was now rightfully a man aquiver with possibility and purpose … - Richard Ford, Independence Day, 1995 … the script is written in advance, around the uplifting themes of our civic religion: reconciliation, patriotism, self-sacrifice, the bond of leader and little guy, nostalgia for what is inevitably called "a simpler time." - Katha Pollitt, Nation, Nevertheless, if one understands the nostalgia for war which marked these years of his break with America, it still remains a nostalgia that is empyreal and histrionic. Through this rich, inter-generational performance practice, a marginalized, vernacular political minority has deployed radical nostalgia as a necessary corrective to an official culture disinterested in America’s leftist past, and threatened by its implications.To dwell even fitfully on the past, for James, was to risk crippling nostalgia the past was the shadow side of will and therefore must be rejected. history when views now thought extreme were an accepted part of mass political discourse. The exemplary role of songs from the war, as both nostalgic triggers and historical artifacts, is also examined.Ĭommemorations of the Spanish Civil War have provided necessary anchors for a period in U.S. The history and content of these events is detailed and analyzed here based on a combination of archival and ethnographic evidence. Literary recitations, scripted dramatic pieces, songs, films, photographs, and celebrity appearances have been juxtaposed with speeches, fundraising, and a rigorous attention to pressing political and social concerns of the day. For nearly seventy years, the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade have cited and re-cited their activist past in theatrically eclectic, highly emotional commemorative performances, a site for both nostalgia and progressive politics. After three bloody years, Franco’s rebellion succeeded, and his dictatorship lasted until his death in 1975.įrom the moment the first American volunteers returned home, and to this day, they have been holding commemorative events recalling the struggle. They came together to defend the democratically elected Spanish government against this early manifestation of the fascist Axis. Between 19, responding to a military coup in Spain led by Francisco Franco with the support of both Hitler and Mussolini, over 2700 US anti-fascists joined 30,000 volunteers from around the world to form the International Brigade. ![]() Nostalgia can serve as a vital tool in the emotional reconstitution and preservation of suppressed histories, rather than sentimentally privileging the past at the expense of present concerns and limiting a culture’s progressive potential.
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