Sentences with phrase «kind of nostalgia in»

Publisher's Weekly even noted a kind of nostalgia in his book for the early days of Amazon, as Marcus writes about their warehouse across from the world headquarters of Starbucks and the exhiliaration they seemed to feel.

The appearance onscreen of pointillist swarms of film grain may trigger a specific kind of nostalgia in movie buffs, for chemically produced and mechanically projected images that are rarely seen these days outside of repertory cinemas and museums.

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The best book on democracy and the best book on America, Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, is pretty much a handbook on that kind of nostalgia.

«I don't think Tony Blair has read or seriously engaged with [our arguments]... Nostalgia is a wicked thing because it sanitises the past — as wicked as a certain kind of cruel modernism that sees no benefit in the past.

As time has passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, a kind of nostalgia for the old German Democratic Republic has been growing.

Here you will often find that the rural beauty holds much of the olden day charm and classical - ness of days gone past in a beautiful one of a kind nostalgia based mannerism that one can only find in Oregon.

No matter what type of relationship you're looking for — from the forever kind to the When looked upon with the rose - colored glasses of nostalgia, the dating we did in our 20s was the stuff of romantic comedies, especially when compared with

It's certainly niche, definitely esoteric, but for those that it does tickle, (especially those who have a friend to play with in real, physical space), it's the kind of experience that is unlike anything I can think of, and since first coming across it years ago, has been talked about with a sense of wistful nostalgia by anyone I know who's played it.

Setting it evocatively in George W Bush's America of the early 2000s, hardly a rosy age for American politics or mass nostalgia, courts a kind of bittersweet nostalgia that's hitting many right in the tear ducts: soft but sober, it's a film about how bad things were before we knew how bad they were going to get.

The gorgeous nostalgia supplied by Sergio Leone's mythic 1968 summation work — in many ways a tombstone for a certain kind of Western hero, of an «ancient race,» as Charles Bronson says — packs a wallop.

The show never makes you feel as though you're participating in a cynical nostalgia play (though, let's face it, you kind of are), and while 10 Years Later took a dip in quality, succumbing to the dopiness of its own premise, the steady laughs have us recommending both seasons.

Filled with nostalgia for the kind of future Disney envisioned when he built the original Tomorrowland theme park in the 1950s, Bird's film borrows sci - fi tropes from «The Matrix,» «Stargate» and other films, mooshing them together with CGI action sequences (one of which, a rocket lifting off from the Eiffel Tower, is truly spectacular) and enough philosophizing to fill several TED talks.

But most of all it seemed to be a way to address something that's prevalent in all his books; that outlandish spirit, the humour, the nostalgia — that kind of sweet, dripping aching for the past.»

You could say the same thing about nostalgia, whether it's the kind of»80s name - checking that Spielberg and Cline are doing in «Ready Player One» or the kind that politicians and advertisers do when they encourage their audiences to remember the good ole days - comforting if you don't think too hard and, as corporations and film studios well know, monetizable.

This kind of pop nostalgia, of course, has only intensified in the 16 years since «Donnie Darko's» initial release, as demonstrated most recently by the hit Netflix series «Stranger Things,» which shares Kelly's affection for Steven Spielberg and Stephen King.

It's the kind of movie that will make some critics instantly want to go and write a long essay — but then we too are probably caught up in our own nostalgia for the 80s and the golden age of theorizing on the wonders of post-modernism.

The summer season has been kind with the release of two movies from Marvel Studios in «Thor» and «Captain America: The First Avenger,» two nostalgia driven action movies in «Super 8» and «Attack The Block,» hugely disappointing movies in «Cowboys and Aliens» and «The Hangover II.»

As you and editorial plot out what kinds of new series you'll launch, do you sometimes look for new series that capitalize on things like nostalgia, or grass roots interest in properties that haven't been around in a while?

The super-long ad was inspired by the Twitter hashtag #PlaystationMemories, and aims at the nostalgia in all of us who grew up with the systems playing all kinds of different games like Tekken, Resident Evil 4, and Gran Turismo 5.

It just feels as though it's a replica of the classic games we used to play; I'm all for nostalgia and it's great to play something that reminds me of some of the classics, but in this day and age I kind of expected a little bit more.

However, Brice reassures players that even though the developers want to hit home and capture what it's like to be in school, they want to provide a nice kind of nostalgia for players.

«Both Wonder Momo and Rolling Thunder evoke strong, iconic nostalgia amongst gamers of different kinds,» said Rob Pereyda, Producer and Editor - in - Chief of ShiftyLook for NAMCO BANDAI Games.

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And they exploit a certain kind of nostalgia, memories of furniture that once occupied childhood homes — or maybe, in their misshapen, stripped - bare construction, the curbsides of childhood homes, waiting to be towed away.