Sentences with phrase «without nostalgia»

Artists in the exhibition embraced the visual language of Pop — bold, processed color and graphic cartoon - like iconography — without any nostalgia or consumer critique.

They have strong elements of gestural abstraction and calligraphy, but without the nostalgia of too much abstraction these days.

Ten years later when Rauschenberg was making Gluts, the assemblages composed of artifacts from the «80s - era oil boom in his home state of Texas, he described them as documentation of greed and excess, or «souvenirs without nostalgia.»

Upstairs, Amy Balkin's A People's Archive of Sinking and Melting (State: From the Majuro Declaration to COP19 Warsaw) preserves human artifacts from lands that may be lost to rising sea levels — Anvers Island, Venice, New Orleans, Tuvalu, and more — with an echo of Rauschenberg's melancholy «souvenirs without nostalgia.»

Greed is rampant... I simply want to present people with their ruins... I think of the Gluts as souvenirs without nostalgia.»

She's just the female version of Cloud anyway, without the nostalgia of her game being the first 3D Final Fantasy.

It's still one of the best shooters out there and even without nostalgia this game packed solid content.

There's something to be said for experiencing something the first time and being able to enjoy it without any nostalgia attached.

I don't remember the originals that well, I may have rented R&C 1 once or something, so I'm without nostalgia but still find it fantastic.

Essentially you're getting a NES game without the nostalgia so it is entirely up to you to judge if this would represent good value for money.

I recently remembered about that breakfast, not without some nostalgia, and decided to elaborate on the original recipe.

We need to face our present challenges without nostalgia.

Not exact matches

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.

It's a rare feat to start with «80s nostalgia and dive so deep, so quickly without sacrificing laughs along the way.

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

My rule of thumb for buying a cookbook is that it must contain at least five recipes that I can not live without trying AND it must offer some intangible something — innovation, technique, cultural insight, or even nostalgia — that I can not already easily find on my shelves or on the internet.

I'm sure nostalgia adds to its appeal, but warm, sweet and crunchy, I think I'd still find it comforting even without any memories attached.

So while I join you in wishing these discussions weren't necessary and also share in your nostalgia for a time when these topics didn't come up, I'm legitimately mystified as to how to discuss these issues without some overlap.

Vecsey's clear - eyed prose hints at nostalgia without becoming maudlin as he presents Musial as the quintessential Eisenhower - era star: the approachable guy next door, not at all like the petulant Ted Williams or the icy Joe DiMaggio.

I'm not one for graphic «real life» dramas or R - rated movies at all, YouTube suffices for 80's Rock era nostalgia, so once I checked off The Amazing Spiderman, I'm left without any interest in movies.

Even without considering the nostalgia element, this is definitely one of the best platform games of last decade.

If you're an RPG fan looking for some lighter fare, Torneko is a charming little adventure that manages to push the nostalgia button without feeling overly dated.

It likely goes without saying that the answer to that question is «no,» but the grainy re-purposing of Metal Gear Solid 5 footage impressively captures that»80s nostalgia.

On the Flickering Myth Podcast, staff writer Scott Davis suggested that it would have been better if they'd reprised these characters for a Funny or Die skit, something for the fans that could have thrived on the nostalgia wagon without overstaying its welcome.

Though familiar in subject matter, despite its uniquely confident female perspective, Gerwig never hits a false note, oscillating between wisdom and poignancy without falling into the trap of the nostalgia from a period so clearly influencing this sweetly tuned homage to misguided angst, ignorant yearnings, and the desire to break out on one's own.

Even without the magic of nostalgia, there's a belief we can find love not by looking forward but by looking to our past.

However, on the flip side, you can see films like 2015's «Pixels» misuse nostalgia in the worst ways, cynically presenting nostalgic properties without even trying to replicate what made them nostalgic to people in the first place.

Nostalgia is defined by the fact that this used to be how we saw the brutal, stupid - ass Russian Hun, barrelling into the middle of a large country without much of a plan beyond patrolling a position held together by spit, doggedness, and dead boys you're sadly not going to get to buy back.

Here, through the idyllic prism of the City of Light, Allen goes on a pastel - tinted nostalgia trip that romanticises the past without losing sight of the present.

Though the 90's nostalgia is a bit overbearing, it helps convey Robespierre and Holm's overall theme: that even without cell phones or screens to take our attention, we still lack communication, especially when secrets start to fester.

Despite the predictability, Landline isn't without its charm and makes for a pleasant ride down nostalgia lane.

The event of a Star Wars film brings the nostalgia of fans young and old for months or years on end without ever tethering.

Still, it's refreshing to read someone tackling the gender question without resorting to distant Kate Hepburn nostalgia.

Even so, Italian - horror buffs may feel a flush of nostalgia watching this bewitching genre whatsit, which manages to evoke the crimson - splashed shockers of the 1970s without so much as a single frame of actual carnage.

It's a nostalgia pick, as this was the first movie I ever saw in a theatre without adult supervision.

Without the legacy and nostalgia factor the series enjoys elsewhere in the world, the Star Wars franchise has had a rough time catching on in the Middle Kingdom.

DC Cab is a very uninspired and lazy movie strictly of appeal to people who want a slice of 1980s nostalgia, without the high overhead of having to actually think while watching a movie.

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And if digital distribution has a chance of being more profitable than brick - and - mortar store distribution then Marvel owes it to it's readers, creators and stock holders to pursue that business without having to worry about someone else's business for nostalgia's sake.»

Double Fine's handling of this remaster has satiated my nostalgia without a hint of disappointment, and has me all the more eager to see how they handle the translation of other projects to modern consoles.

It's hard to comment on this 20 years later without a flood of nostalgia hitting me.

Without spoiling what happens, the development team doesn't forget to pay homages to Kratos past and there will be parts in the game where nostalgia will kick in.

Shovel Knight is the prime example of a game paying ample homage to the retro era of decades past without exploiting or relying on gamer nostalgia.

The question here is, is there enough to draw in people without the same history of nostalgia for the time and is the game actually a good one?

Age of Empires: Definitive Edition satisfied my nostalgia without forcing me to deal with outdated mechanics.

I'm not saying that old games never hold up, and it is true that all experiences are subjective, but there is merit to experiencing old games without the rose - coloured glasses that accompany nostalgia.

Other Dark Souls fans might find that Dark Souls 3 tickles their nostalgia without exploiting their fond memories, but not me.

It can provide a lot of fun with its multiplayer mode even without taking nostalgia into account.

Its pixel graphics instil you with a sense of nostalgia, without seeming cheap or low - tech.

Nostalgia is a funny thing: too much of it and we'll never escape the past, but what are we left with without it?