nostalgia
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They remind us that nostalgia for the food culture of our grandparents overlooks the prevalence of rickets, pellagra and food-poisoning in those days, to say nothing of hunger.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Sunak’s essay pairs hawkish foreign policy analysis with patriotic nostalgia for how the Royal Navy used to maintain Britain’s position as a “global hegemon.”
From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026
But some have asked whether this was just a nostalgia trip.
From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026
Yet for all the mythical qualities of Apollo, Jack Kiraly, director of government relations at the Planetary Society, said "nostalgia" perhaps "glosses over some of the issues that the program at the time faced."
From Barron's • Apr. 11, 2026
After eighteen sentences that mix wistful nostalgia with abstract philosophizing, the reverie is punctured by a stark revelation.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing nostalgia
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