Sentences with phrase «nostalgia at»

It's called the Gemini PDA, and while that name may sound familiar to some there's a whole lot more than nostalgia at play here.

[12] Fast's 2009 - 2010 Nostalgia at the Whitney Museum of American Art was part of the 2008 Bucksbaum Award, given to the most prominent artist in that year's Whitney Biennial.

It may be devoted to the very latest in contemporary art, but there's also more than a whiff of nostalgia at this year's Frieze London which breaks new ground by devoting an entire section to the Nineties — a time which still seems really quite recent to some of us.

There was no sense of childhood nostalgia at all.

Nostalgia at its finest....

There was more than mere nostalgia at play here.

There's a certain sense of nostalgia at work in Citizens of Earth that works on aging gamers like myself.

However bad the overall story was, I felt a sense of nostalgia at certain moments that would almost trick me into thinking the game wasn't half bad.

The fireplace here brings a welcome dose of nostalgia at night as guests gather for pre-dinner drinks whilst warming themselves by the flames.

The architecture and decor of Tri Yaan Na Ros reflect the proud history of Chiang Mai and one feels a sense of nostalgia at this ancient Colonial house.

Perhaps because el Niño Manuelito or Tayta - Niño has been responsible for thousands of miracles in the Andean community, there is no lack of sentiments and nostalgia at the Santuranticuy fair.

This is costume drama and nostalgia at its best.

There's been an overwhelming sense of nostalgia at theaters this summer, with films like «Mad Max: Fury Road,» «Jurassic World» and «Terminator Genisys» all reviving decades - old franchises on the big screen, and «Vacation» continues that trend with the latest installment in the National Lampoon series that began with Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo and a rotating door of actors playing their two kids.

If so, treat yourselves to a night of retro gaming - themed nostalgia at PsychoCandy, a quirky nightclub that blasts out club remixes of Zelda (with added techno) alongside Mario / Sonic mash - ups.

Nostalgia at it's finest.

Someday we might look back with a curious nostalgia at the days when profligate homeowners wastefully sprayed their lawns with liquid gold to make the grass grow, just so they could then burn black gold to cut it down on the weekends.

It's nostalgia at its finest!

Not exact matches

Not sappy and at times completely relatable — I recommend it to young adults who are in that stage of life themselves or adults who look back to those times with nostalgia.

As a trustee at Stanford, she was making more trips to the West Coast, and colleagues say she felt nostalgia for Palo Alto, where her father still lives.

At V's, we bring you the nostalgia of yesteryear with a modern twist.

It doesn't hurt that nostalgia has proved effective at loosening consumers» grips on their wallets.

«One of the things that I think Nintendo really hit [with Super Mario Maker] was the nostalgia factor in their marketing,» says Christine Arrington, games analyst at IHS.

«At the core, brands are trying to, in many cases, create engagement with consumers, and this [nostalgia marketing] is an engagement hook for them.»

The push to return to the vanguard comes at a time of growing nostalgia for the heyday of Japan «s technological prowess, which has dwindled since China overtook it as the world's second - biggest economy.

For the millions of us who stared at Windows XP desktops for hours every day for work and school, there's a certain nostalgia now for the old Windows user interface, before the flat design ethos of Windows 8 squashed everything into neat little boxes that are multicoloured without being that, well, colourful.

Starbucks Nostalgia: In the latest installment of an occasional series, we take a look back at Starbucks iconic holiday cups, which have helped usher in the holidays since 1997.

It's a provocative mode that plays with the Mario formula, at once evoking nostalgia while also telling you to forget what what you think you know about Mario.

Read on for his thoughts on (among other things) oceanside nostalgia, dusty color palettes, and the bare - minimum packing list for a weekend away, then watch the video at the bottom for even more on Escondido from the man himself.

Sponsor logos are seen at BuzzFeed's Throwback Thursday:»90s Nostalgia Night presented by Hasbro Game Night and Canon PowerShot at the Canal Room on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013 in New York.

But some listeners can't forget that America wasn't always all about freedom for some people and talking about the past in a way that ignores those experiences comes across like cluelessness at best or nostalgia for the political marginalization of nonwhites at worst.

It is not mere nostalgia that induces my regret over the erosion - at both ends of the theological spectrum - of Lutheran distinctiveness.

But man's nostalgia to be at home in the universe is futile; the gap between man and the indifference of nature can not be closed.

I am not urging a triumphalist or even progressivist view — triumphalism being not at all preferable to nostalgia.

None of us admits to nostalgia when important matters are at stake.

Listen to all the name dropping and nostalgia... Pastors tend to think people care about the people who write the books and speak at the conferences they go to.

But at the deepest level this program of evangelism is, I believe, addressing only the Christian «in» group or fanning the religious nostalgia of the past.

They can pull at our hearts, leaving them wavering somewhere between nostalgia and discomfort, anticipation and hope.

Although they have used feminist language at times, their opposition to pornography stems much more from their nostalgia for a «purer» America, and they disagree with feminists on crucial issues such as sex education and day care.

It is not mere nostalgia that induces my regret over the erosion — at both ends of the theological spectrum — of Lutheran distinctiveness.

And that «return» (often called ressourcement theology) was not a matter of pious nostalgia but of intellectual adventure: a movement that sought to enrich the Church's reflection on her own nature and mission at a moment when theology risked falling into a sub-discipline of logic — something dry and abstract, detached from the explosive good news of the Gospel.

Bob Cheeks below, with admirable selective nostalgia, speculates that the South could have won at Gettysburg with Jackson on the field.

When one looks at the popular genre of «bonnet - ripper» Amish romances, or the «tiny house» fad, it's easy to detect a certain nostalgia for a minimalist life.

If Christianity can be debunked at its very root, then the painful tug of this nostalgia for the lost innocence of fusion in the ancient tradition can be laid to rest: the ghost of Jesus will grant us peace, if only...

So many questions, but we don't get to choose the word of the year (The runner - up is «nostalgia» which also seems just about as old as time itself, but at least it's entered sort of a boom season, so that makes a little more sense).

Looking at contemporary American society, the authors find nostalgia, without coherence, striving without goal, hope without plausible concurrent action.

In a moving story concerning his own children's unanimous affirmation of the moral legitimacy of «same - sex sex» he harked back with nostalgia to his «religious instruction... in the 1950s [which] was hardly rigorous, but at least I was taught to memorise the questions and answers of the Penny Catechism.»

Here's my problem with all this: most things that happened in the 60s should not be looked at with nostalgia and admiration.

If My Little Pony can come back, surely there's room at that 1980s nostalgia table for Rainbow Brite.

It's not surprising, therefore, that some, perhaps many, have nostalgia, if not for communist societies, at least for the critical leverage communist theories of economics, society, and human identity once provided.

Promoting a brittle presentmindedness, the idea of progress weakens «the inclination to make intelligent provision for the future, and nostalgia, its ideological twin, undermines the ability to make intelligent use of the past» Distinguishing carefully between nostalgia and an appropriately critical historic memory, Lasch laments the ways in which — driven by progress, even driven a bit mad by it — we can do no better than issue a «communitarian counterpoint» to attempt to right the balance and to retain, at least here and there, smidgens of civic virtue.