hearken

The title may hearken back to decades long gone, but there’s something contemporary about “Mid-Century Modern.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025

It sounded strange, like a song out of time — Melanie said she intended it to hearken to the 1930s — sung with what could now be called a warbling “indie girl voice.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2024

It's also got ground pork, shrimp, lemongrass, and lots of bright herbs, and is served with a fish sauce dipping sauce — flavors that skew Vietnamese, but also hearken back to Cantonese traditions.

From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2021

Elsewhere, the more melancholic numbers hearken back to rainy-day power pop of the ’90s, occasionally erupting in star-reaching guitar leads that would make My Morning Jacket jealous.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2021

‘Now Théoden son of Thengel, will you hearken to me?’ said Gandalf.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

And it’s on Max, but it sort of hearkens back to, like, the old-school broadcast kind of drama.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2025

Riley’s work hearkens to Krautrock and what would be coming in post-rock.

From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

“True Detective: Night Country” hearkens back to the critically acclaimed first season pairing Matthew McConaughey’s Rust Cohle with Woody Harrelson’s Marty Hart.

From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2024

The song, Hagar said, also hearkens back to their work with Satchel, another alt-rock band Hagar and Smith formed in the early ’90s, which released three full-length albums, plus a split compilation with Brad.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2023

It hearkens back to the long-ago rope, swinging in the slight breeze.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

As directed by James Griffiths, Mr. Basden and Mr. Key’s screenplay hearkened back to “Local Hero” with its warm glow of appreciation for U.K. oddballs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

Carney revealed it on Friday during his first speech as prime minister when he hearkened back - with a shiny polish - to the origins of this former colony.

From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2025

That’s a lesson that hearkened back to her earlier career and another thing she loved.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024

During a hearing Thursday, Carter posed provocative questions to the attorneys and, at one point, hearkened to a time when the VA had thousands of veterans living there.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2023

There was uncertainty in his voice, though, and later Theresa hearkened to this.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

Parsons said liminal spaces all share a quality of feeling familiar: hearkening fragments of distant memories or experiences during childhood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

Subconsciously hearkening back to his childhood sleep experiences, he adds, “I wanted this story to feel like a nightmare that just keeps getting worse and worse and worse and worse.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

Unfortunately, when we’re taught that there are only eight planets and these planets reign in their orbits, we’re hearkening back to the old geocentric concept.

From National Geographic ● Feb. 16, 2024

And with them came a hearkening back to tipping’s shameful origins.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2022

Now 'tis our custom in this land, when we have slain the innocent by hearkening to false knaves like thee, not to blame our credulous ears, but the false tongue that gulled them.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade