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Definition of nostalgia:

  • (noun) longing for something past

Sentence Examples:

Mostly, beauty is nostalgia.

Like Arthur Rimbaud, he suffered from the nostalgia of the open road.

This painter suffered from the nostalgia of the ideal.

Nostalgia was not yet shaken off.

A few ducks made their appearance and manifested a feeling of nostalgia.

"He will see Germany long before I shall," said Herr Heinrich with a gust of nostalgia.

That 'raw heart' marks the outsider, the victim of nostalgia.

My dear young friends, have you ever heard of a disease called "nostalgia?"

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

The nostalgia of the boards is a disease your love might not have warded off.

Many a place gets into your mind and creates nostalgia when you are far from it.

There were times when this sickness came on me, this nostalgia of streets.

In a moment almost of nostalgia, he recalled the incident.

The sense of exile was almost gone, the nostalgia for his own land no longer keen.

Somehow, sitting in the dusky Tombs didn't seem to help their Nostalgia.

The provocation to nostalgia would presumably be as good as ever.

The whole kitchen level looked so unchanged that she had a moment of nostalgia.

His trapped feeling increased, and nostalgia began to bore into him.

There was too much nostalgia concentrated here, along with the humidity.

He had brought back to her a sudden powerful nostalgia for the life she had once known.

It breaks up the rap with a burst of musical nostalgia.

The feeling was not nostalgia, for that far country was no home for him now.

Nostalgia also of the worst kind had attacked her.

Yet the Queen must have a cat, or she will pine quite away with nostalgia.

Max, looking out the plane's window as they took off, bore an air of nostalgia.

The nostalgia filled her up like a balloon expanding in her chest.

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

We call it nostalgia, we say it is a longing for their country.

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

Nostalgia in her cruel equipment carries a scented phantom apple.

For this the victims of nostalgia do long service.

He had fits of violent nostalgia.

For the green woods and the forest ways she suffered an intolerable nostalgia.

To-night deep nostalgia possesses my heart; the seasons have swung round again.

This infinite of nostalgia has nothing in common with the infinite of religion.

Yet even they did feel nostalgia after too long an absence.

There was the painful nostalgia of recognizing a strange room.

The present generation of Americans can gaze back upon these things with nostalgia.

This renewal of old ties brought on a terrible nostalgia.

Nostalgia, next to hunger, is the worst thing for a soldier.

He is bad reading for solitude, for he fills the mind with the nostalgia of cities.

He knew its name: Nostalgia; and he left to time the responsibility of its cure.

I brought away with me a feeling of nostalgia for that peace.

It is enough for us that these names suggest all the pathetic nostalgia of exiles.

The smell of the violets, so near now, was dizzying her with nostalgia.

Bill's hopeless nostalgia of the day before was entirely forgotten.

He had a passion, a profound nostalgia for the place.

There remained only a deep longing, that seemed to be a nostalgia of the infinite.

Then he asked the nurse if she had ever heard of a disease called "nostalgia."

A secret, biting nostalgia seized him because of his solitude on that heavenly morning.

Its yellow glow brought back a comforting nostalgia.

The sight stirred a touch of nostalgia in him, as it always did, but he put it aside.

Even his nostalgia was cured.

He will not let Eskimo Charley treat him for nostalgia.