Nostalgic
adjective
Feeling or showing a sentimental longing for the past.
Her grandmother is nostalgic about her youthful days
Often appears as...
- feel nostalgic
- nostalgic about
adjective
Relating to or characterized by nostalgia, the sentimental longing for the past.
The nostalgic music takes me back to my childhood
Often appears as...
- nostalgic music
- nostalgic feeling
adjective
Feeling or showing a sentimental longing for the past.
Her grandmother is nostalgic about her youthful days
Often appears as...
- feel nostalgic
- nostalgic about
adjective
Relating to or characterized by nostalgia, the sentimental longing for the past.
The nostalgic music takes me back to my childhood
Often appears as...
- nostalgic music
- nostalgic feeling
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Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Tone
Nostalgic expressions often carry a mix of happiness and sadness about the past.
Looking at old photos, I felt deeply nostalgic for my childhood summers.
Pro Tip 2/3Personal Context
Use 'nostalgic' when discussing personal memories or histories with emotional significance.
The scent of lavender is nostalgic for me; it reminds me of my mother's garden.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Reference
Mention 'nostalgic' when an object, tradition, or place is celebrated for its historical importance.
The vintage car show was a nostalgic event for the enthusiasts.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Tone
Nostalgic expressions often carry a mix of happiness and sadness about the past.
Looking at old photos, I felt deeply nostalgic for my childhood summers.
Pro Tip 2/3Personal Context
Use 'nostalgic' when discussing personal memories or histories with emotional significance.
The scent of lavender is nostalgic for me; it reminds me of my mother's garden.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Reference
Mention 'nostalgic' when an object, tradition, or place is celebrated for its historical importance.
The vintage car show was a nostalgic event for the enthusiasts.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Tone
Nostalgic expressions often carry a mix of happiness and sadness about the past.
Looking at old photos, I felt deeply nostalgic for my childhood summers.
Pro Tip 2/3Personal Context
Use 'nostalgic' when discussing personal memories or histories with emotional significance.
The scent of lavender is nostalgic for me; it reminds me of my mother's garden.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Reference
Mention 'nostalgic' when an object, tradition, or place is celebrated for its historical importance.
The vintage car show was a nostalgic event for the enthusiasts.
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We Are What We Eat:...
It's very surreal atmosphere, I've never been to the Arctic. Never been up there. Lots of dog howling and very nostalgic feel about the place. I had contacted a family before. So when I arrived I was met by this family. And I spent ten days sleeping there in the living room.
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Paper towns and why...
were huge mirrors reflecting the sun back into the desert. But unlike most mirrors, which present you with an outside view of yourself embedded in a place, these mirrors come back empty. John Makes me nostalgic for the days when you could see the pixels in online video.
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Gavin Pretor-Pinney:...
and then they rush off and do some blue-sky thinking. But most people, when you stop to ask them, will admit to harboring a strange sort of fondness for clouds. It's like a nostalgic fondness, and they make them think of their youth.
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Lee Mokobe: A powerful...
It was met with nostalgic aunts who missed seeing my knees in the shadow of skirts, who reminded me that my kind of attitude would never bring a husband home, that I exist for heterosexual marriage and child-bearing.
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Sonic Postcards from The...
the weather is kind of a nostalgic feeling of abandonment and that that's a rare condition in suffering italy because it's not easy to find yourself in a place where you feel so far away from from everything
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Pablo Escobar's Hippos PIPE...
treasure and all of that stuff once they brought a backhoe into this area of the pool in the bar they knocked that over with a backhoe so when you come in and look at the state it's in well I get nostalgic
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When local news dies, so...
movies that romanticize what journalism used to be. Well, I'm not here to be romantic or nostalgic. I'm here to warn you that when local news dies, so does our democracy. And that should concern you --
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Cloudy with a chance of...
them will admit to harboring a strange sort of fondness for clouds it's like a nostalgic fondness and they make them think of their youth you here can't remember thinking while looking and finding
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How we can design...
that we associate with the places that we cherish the most? Now, maybe you think I'm just being nostalgic -- why does it matter? Who cares if there is this creeping sameness besetting our planet?
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Ben Katchor's comics of...
As adults we admire the lap from a nostalgic distance. We have fading memories of that provisional temple, erected each time an adult sat down.
Video examples
We Are What We Eat:...
It's very surreal atmosphere, I've never been to the Arctic. Never been up there. Lots of dog howling and very nostalgic feel about the place. I had contacted a family before. So when I arrived I was met by this family. And I spent ten days sleeping there in the living room.
Video examples
Paper towns and why...
were huge mirrors reflecting the sun back into the desert. But unlike most mirrors, which present you with an outside view of yourself embedded in a place, these mirrors come back empty. John Makes me nostalgic for the days when you could see the pixels in online video.
Video examples
Gavin Pretor-Pinney:...
and then they rush off and do some blue-sky thinking. But most people, when you stop to ask them, will admit to harboring a strange sort of fondness for clouds. It's like a nostalgic fondness, and they make them think of their youth.
Video examples
Lee Mokobe: A powerful...
It was met with nostalgic aunts who missed seeing my knees in the shadow of skirts, who reminded me that my kind of attitude would never bring a husband home, that I exist for heterosexual marriage and child-bearing.
Video examples
Sonic Postcards from The...
the weather is kind of a nostalgic feeling of abandonment and that that's a rare condition in suffering italy because it's not easy to find yourself in a place where you feel so far away from from everything
Video examples
Pablo Escobar's Hippos PIPE...
treasure and all of that stuff once they brought a backhoe into this area of the pool in the bar they knocked that over with a backhoe so when you come in and look at the state it's in well I get nostalgic
Video examples
When local news dies, so...
movies that romanticize what journalism used to be. Well, I'm not here to be romantic or nostalgic. I'm here to warn you that when local news dies, so does our democracy. And that should concern you --
Video examples
Cloudy with a chance of...
them will admit to harboring a strange sort of fondness for clouds it's like a nostalgic fondness and they make them think of their youth you here can't remember thinking while looking and finding
Video examples
How we can design...
that we associate with the places that we cherish the most? Now, maybe you think I'm just being nostalgic -- why does it matter? Who cares if there is this creeping sameness besetting our planet?
Video examples
Ben Katchor's comics of...
As adults we admire the lap from a nostalgic distance. We have fading memories of that provisional temple, erected each time an adult sat down.
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Zoe Perry
American Actress
When I was younger, I was living in that green room and accompanying them to all the different theaters that they worked at. So, that has always remained a nostalgic place for me and also one of great admiration. I was just so grateful that that passion they have for theater translated to me, because I always loved seeing it.
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Jamila Woods
American Musician
I think of music as creating a space. I like to put things in that are comforting to me and are nostalgic. To me, that's what sampling does in songs; it's making deeper layers for people who know where it comes from, but also referencing another part of my history and my memory or a memory that I have.
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Neil Peart
Canadian Musician
To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future. I have no patience with that kind of attitude, whether it's on radio or among friends.
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Michael Ian Black
American Comedian
There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.
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Kim Kardashian
American Celebrity
I'm a really nostalgic person. I love taking photos and video and having memories. I remember all my childhood videos that my dad used to take. I think that's really what life is about - especially when you start a family of your own.
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Moshe Kasher
American Comedian
Well, 'Problematic' was the opposite of a show that was nostalgic and a light fluffy look at life. We were literally trying to kick a hornets' nest, and I don't know how effectively we did or didn't do that.
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Imelda May
Irish Musician
I don't think the music that I do is nostalgic in any way; I don't think about going back to nice, old-fashioned music. I'm certainly influenced by old music, but I want to bring it slap-bang up to today.
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Katie Aselton
American Director
I'm not super nostalgic for friendships I've lost along the way. I feel like, if they were truly meaningful and really special, they would still exist. I think we grow and change, and that's okay.
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Porter Robinson
American Musician
An underexplored reason why nostalgic art is worthwhile is that it influences the way the past is remembered.
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David Lowery
American Director
I'm a deeply romantic person, nostalgic to a fault.
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Zoe Perry
American Actress
When I was younger, I was living in that green room and accompanying them to all the different theaters that they worked at. So, that has always remained a nostalgic place for me and also one of great admiration. I was just so grateful that that passion they have for theater translated to me, because I always loved seeing it.
Quote examples
Jamila Woods
American Musician
I think of music as creating a space. I like to put things in that are comforting to me and are nostalgic. To me, that's what sampling does in songs; it's making deeper layers for people who know where it comes from, but also referencing another part of my history and my memory or a memory that I have.
Quote examples
Neil Peart
Canadian Musician
To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future. I have no patience with that kind of attitude, whether it's on radio or among friends.
Quote examples
Michael Ian Black
American Comedian
There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.
Quote examples
Kim Kardashian
American Celebrity
I'm a really nostalgic person. I love taking photos and video and having memories. I remember all my childhood videos that my dad used to take. I think that's really what life is about - especially when you start a family of your own.
Quote examples
Moshe Kasher
American Comedian
Well, 'Problematic' was the opposite of a show that was nostalgic and a light fluffy look at life. We were literally trying to kick a hornets' nest, and I don't know how effectively we did or didn't do that.
Quote examples
Imelda May
Irish Musician
I don't think the music that I do is nostalgic in any way; I don't think about going back to nice, old-fashioned music. I'm certainly influenced by old music, but I want to bring it slap-bang up to today.
Quote examples
Katie Aselton
American Director
I'm not super nostalgic for friendships I've lost along the way. I feel like, if they were truly meaningful and really special, they would still exist. I think we grow and change, and that's okay.
Quote examples
Porter Robinson
American Musician
An underexplored reason why nostalgic art is worthwhile is that it influences the way the past is remembered.
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David Lowery
American Director
I'm a deeply romantic person, nostalgic to a fault.
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