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

These require a considerable amount of work and hearken back to the day when someone in the house didn’t mind sorting through laundry in the cage that hung from the ceiling in the basement.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2022

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

“Octavian,” said he, “have any voices presented themselves to you — speaking in remote quarters — which you might not, in other seasons, hearken to?”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

Usually with female characters, everything always hearkens back to the family.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

A line of dialogue hearkens back to the beginning in a way that might be thought of as closure, as a circle closes without going anywhere, and yet things are not the same.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2025

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

From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

This film in some ways hearkens visually back to some classic horror films, to "Frankenstein," to "Metropolis."

From Salon ● Dec. 12, 2023

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

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

He hearkened back to the idea of “bond vigilantes,” a famous term coined by economist Ed Yardeni to describe investors who shun debt until yields rise and they get paid more.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

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

I hearkened it back to, “What is actually beautiful? And do I believe in it?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024

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

After 130 years, the Louis Vuitton monogram still carries weight, hearkening back to an era of remarkable craftsmanship.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 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 hearkening back to FDR’s Federal Writers Project, this effort could find a paying home for local reporters and editors laid off by Gannett and others.

From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2023

It may also, hearkening to the voice of philosophy, hold itself clear and pure from such defilement.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill