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with nostalgia

adv. in a nostalgic manner; "they spent an hour together, talking nostalgically as they wandered slowly down the coast road" [syn: nostalgically]

Usage examples of "with nostalgia".

A reader of today who doesn't have his mind filled to the bursting point with nostalgia can only observe that most of the pulp sf was terrible literature, that the love interest was taken directly from the sugar bowl, that the science was idiotic and the dizzying views hardly more than backdrops, sea stories on a cosmic level.

Now she understood why when two ex-Confederates met, they talked of the war with so much relish, with pride, with nostalgia.

His dreams, denied the children of midnight, became filled with nostalgia to the point of nausea, so that he often woke up gagging with the heavy musk of regret overpowering his senses.

The central heating, the regular meals and the alcohol which are part of life with Mrs Vine have become charged with nostalgia now that he is close to abandoning them.

In the subtle and haunting light of the setting sun, that golden light rich with nostalgia for the day that was just past, the sombre visage of the place, part manor house, part fortified farmhouse, immense, rambling, a dilapidated eagle's nest atop the crag down which its attendant village meandered, reminded him of childhood tales on winter evenings, when he and his brothers and sisters scared themselves half out of their wits with ghost stories set in just such places and then had to have candles to light them up newly terrifying stairs to bed.

Drosoula had known only how to speak Turkish, and she and her mother had been roundly despised by the Old Greeks at the same time as they wept with nostalgia for their life in the lost homelands.

Looking at his collection of books lovingly accumulated over the years fills him with nostalgia and a sense of imminent loss.

A night charged with nostalgia, that least trustworthy of emotions.

It was a smell loaded with nostalgia, and for once Penelope found herself caught off-guard, and was suffused with a mindless ecstasy that she had not known since she was a child.

Still, in the brief periods of solitude when Mistral's presence was not required, Bunzie thought back on the old days with nostalgia and regret.