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Example sentences for "nostalgia"

Lexicographically close words:
nosing; nosological; nosology; nosotros; nosse; nostalgic; noster; nostra; nostrae; nostram
  1. It is under the influence of nostalgia and love, for both in him are really an ailment--that he begins to sing of Brazil.

  2. And my nostalgia for something I know not what was not an illusion.

  3. But, unlike Annaik, she had little of the barbaric passion, little of that insatiate nostalgia for the life of the open moor and the windy sea, though these she loved not less whole-heartedly than did her sister.

  4. Often, too, Alan, alone in his observatory, where he was wont to spend much of his time, knew that strange nostalgia of the mind for impossible things.

  5. Greece, Poland, Hungary, Ireland, prove this, and the nostalgia is strongest in those of Celtic origin.

  6. This is why all creative things gravitate to God and desire to return to Him as to their origin, and as the perfection of what they are: the universe has nostalgia for God.

  7. The universe is a God in exile who has nostalgia for himself.

  8. Nostalgia had seized me badly, and I was world-weary and homesick--longing now for the day of my departure.

  9. I never afterwards quitted Loch Awe without the same longing to return, and I have never seen any place in the world that inspired in me that nostalgia in anything like an equal degree.

  10. A Londoner would take these inconveniences as a matter of course and be insensible to them, but to me they were so unpleasant that I suffered from nostalgia of the country all the time.

  11. To begin with, the sentiment of nostalgia is but a slender backbone for any work of literary art.

  12. For this the victims of nostalgia do long service.

  13. No, if there were an altar and a service to placate nostalgia it would not be that fisherman who would most attend that service.

  14. Nostalgia in her cruel equipment carries a scented phantom apple.

  15. In spite of these obstacles my nostalgia made me make acquaintance with these monks under pretence of inspecting their Armenian types, which they were already casting.

  16. I daresay I should have got over my nostalgia if I had treated it with contempt, and then I should not have wasted ten years of my life in the bosom of my cruel stepmother Venice.

  17. Nostalgia should be kept in mind where no proper motive for violence is to be found and where the suspect is a person with the above-mentioned qualities.

  18. Just where this begins to be abnormal, must be decided by the physician, who must always be consulted when nostalgia is the ground for a crime.

  19. A longing, a desire, a certain nostalgia filled him more than was usual that evening.

  20. And both of them now became seized with a nostalgia for Europe, a longing to feel so very small no longer.

  21. The terror, the agony, the nostalgia of the heathen past was a constant torture to her mediumistic soul.

  22. But oh, the magic, the nostalgia of the untamed, heathen past which it evoked.

  23. It was the flowers that brought back to Alvina the passionate nostalgia for the place.

  24. As it always comes to its children, the nostalgia of the repulsive, heavy-footed Midlands came over her again, even whilst she was there in the midst.

  25. For the first time the nostalgia of the vast Roman and classic world took possession of her.

  26. Second who died in that last camp of ours in Cuba, died of nostalgia and nothing else.

  27. Bearse of B, was the first man of the Springfield companies to succumb to the fever and the nostalgia which accompanied it.

  28. A few unseasoned revellers overcome with a nostalgia for clean bathrooms and Sunday morning waffles at the family board, sleepily fleeing the scenes of their carouse.

  29. Yes, she understood him, the ache of repentance in his soul, the nostalgia for cleanliness that hurt him so.

  30. Poor Regina, who had not permitted herself to speak of the Marchese since his departure, and whose plucky spirit was, as Anne knew, heavy with nostalgia for Florence and the beloved villa.

  31. She found herself reading Vittorio's letters with a growing nostalgia for his comforting presence.

  32. The literature on homesickness and nostalgia indicates the emotional dependence of the person upon familiar associations and upon early intimate personal relations.

  33. Homesickness and nostalgia are an indication of the personal and intimate nature of the relation of man to the physical world.

  34. Nor is this nostalgia of the frozen north confined to its aboriginal inhabitants, for most explorers who return from its fastnesses experience sooner or later a keen desire to return.

  35. Paris is my home, and I am not ashamed to own that, like most Parisians, I suffer, when abroad, from a nostalgia of the Boulevards that a traveller were perhaps better without.

  36. Many of them will make up the new immigrant populations settled in ethnic neighborhoods where access to consumption will arouse a nostalgia for some remote homeland.

  37. Eating something reminiscent of a fish, whether farmed or synthetically produced, while having video nostalgia for fishing is not an exception.

  38. The American anxiety over the current state of literacy is laden with a nostalgia for a tradition never truly established and a fear of a future never thought through.

  39. Furthermore, when invoking literacy, people maintain a nostalgia for something that has already ceased to affect their lives.

  40. Do you know that feverish malady that seizes hold of us in our cold miseries; that nostalgia of a land unknown; that anguish of curiosity?

  41. But, like Flaubert, on his return home Baudelaire was seized with the nostalgia of the East; over there he had yearned for Paris.

  42. It must not be supposed that nostalgia is a modern weakness, or the monopoly of human minds.

  43. Yes, Finn tasted to the full that night the nostalgia of the wilderness.

  44. A man of fifty, with a sense of beauty, born and bred in the country, suffers fearfully from nostalgia during a long unbroken spell of London; so that his afternoon in the old Abbey had been almost holy.

  45. This visit to Europe absolutely determined his situation; his arrival in New York stimulated and tortured his nostalgia for the old world, and in May, 1872, he flew back here once more to the European enchantment.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nostalgia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aching; bathos; daydream; hankering; languishing; longing; mush; nostalgia; pining; romance; romanticism; sentiment; sentimentality; slop; slush; yearning