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

Certainly, many of the Seahawks can at least hearken back to last Oct.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2023

I'd thought that the sudden Scorsese renaissance was a case of the former: his movies are well-shot, well-acted, well-directed, and hearken back to beloved filmmaking tropes of the New Hollywood era.

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2021

“Mordred,” he said, “for dear sakes, hearken reason. Ye’ll be a brave hind and let it bide? I am the elder of ye, and can see what ill will come.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

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

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

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

The teaser hearkened back to its roots with simple line art tracing out the Seattle skyline and a new recording of Grammer performing the show’s “Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs” theme.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2023

The judge also hearkened back to the days that Silicon Valley consisted mostly of orchards farmed by immigrants.

From Washington Times ● May 27, 2023

One subject we hearkened back to again and again was the question of whether there were tigers in Africa.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

What I find fascinating today, too, is the Gen Z is also hearkening back to the past with a more fluid life where these labels and binaries didn't exist.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2024

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

Looking, he saw no man; hearkening, he heard nothing now but the wind soughing in the chimney and Soetkin weeping under her bedclothes.

From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster