Sentences with phrase «nostalgia for innocence»
Milne, who experienced extreme cruelty under fire on the Western Front, left a legacy of nostalgia for innocence inevitably lost.
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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...
If there is one motif that is common to all forms of romanticism — and here I am speaking of romantic theory and not of the actual poetry of the so - called romantic poets — it is a nostalgia for the lost innocence of a primordial beginning and a yearning for an original and undifferentiated form of consciousness.
First, there is simply its undeniable element of Edenic nostalgia: that longing for innocence, guileless play, the terrestrial paradise — a longing it both evokes and soothes.