This wasn't nostalgia, though. It was a hip Shanghainese band plundering history for a cool new motif.
While boys often expressed nostalgia and affection toward gi Joe, renouncing Barbie appeared to be a rite of passage for many girls, Nairn said.
For example, the Portuguese word "saudade," which means something like a bittersweet nostalgia for a person or thing that has passed, is a word that doesn't exist in English.
During moments of depression or nostalgia, it can be helpful to be quiet and merely breathe.
But they don't have the patina of the past, the decor of nostalgia that calls one back to childhood Saturday mornings in a library.
It is indeed queer that the single biggest topic can bind young people together is nostalgia, as if young people are reminiscent of some kind of long-lost innocence.
Yet that stemmed, I had learnt to my surprise, not from any feelings of nostalgia but from novelty value.
The anger she had repressed in her youth came out forcefully but smoothly, in anecdotes and epigrams, and was carefully modulated into irony or nostalgia.
Because that kind of nostalgia and heritage now exists for the first time.
And now the dreamers, unwitting, sickened with nostalgia, have torn down that last, threadbare vestige of Great Britain. This is the queen of England's England no more.
A nostalgia for the days when you needed to speak Serbian to get on - and not Albanian.
It may be that the candor of contemporary literature creates a nostalgia for indirection, obliquity and deferral(Anatole Broyard)
Nor is it all backward-looking nostalgia: modern ICONS jostle with ancient attractions, and the writing is heavily salted with popular culture.
Still, its results are worth looking at. They are much more meaningful than personal nostalgia.
The sight inspired him with nostalgia.
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