Sentences with phrase «nostalgic longing»

Feelings of nostalgic longing for a remembered past and a hoped - for future haunt, mingle, and coalesce in Shurts» cinematic landscapes which hover between representation and abstraction.

At the same time, he is able to make images and objects which are accessible to everyone, at once kitsch and sinister, and filled with nostalgic longing.

Although the sound of a faraway train whistle often stirs nostalgic longings, Zoellner reminds us that railroads were built on the backbones of many laborers who lost their lives in the effort to stretch gleaming tracks across a nation.

Together, these three features form a fascinating trilogy about an increasingly nostalgic longing for Communist revolution, the poetic possibilities of propaganda, and the limitations of historical documentary.

(36) The memory may be enmeshed in a nostalgic longing for normalcy and «the good old days,» when life was simple and agrarian, settled, and well - ordered.

Belief in the beneficent role of government, intermixed with religion, embodies a nostalgic longing for an imagined premodern golden age where religious leaders led the common populace in a private (and public) life of piety centered in the happy nuclear family.

Yet, despite the discomforts, pain, sleeplessness, and other things which can come along with the pregnancy territory, many mothers finding themselves looking back on their pregnancies with a nostalgic longing.

I have a nostalgic longing for popcorn balls.

«All These Sleepless Nights» The restless ecstasy of youth and the nostalgic longing for euphoric good times is gorgeously captured in Michal Marczak's third feature - length effort.

The whole film seems like an excuse for period play and nostalgic longing (for what, it's never clear).

Using pen and ink on paper, his acutely drafted drawings capture an archival romance of a grand age, a nostalgic longing for the imposing and imperial.