(a.) Of or pertaining to nostalgia; affected with nostalgia.
Example Sentences:
(1) I must also accept that Cameron recruits the best and the brightest, who just happen to be his schoolmates, and that education should be overhauled by a nostalgic zealot who has never taught and dismisses evidence.
(2) Then there were American imperialists, Turkish nostalgics for the Ottoman days and Iranians ambitious for Islamic terrorism in the Balkans.
(3) For a minute or two they get all nostalgic for last year’s showstopper high points.
(4) Yet ice cream does do something funny to a lot of us: it makes us nostalgic and happy and, if you take your cues from Bridget Jones, it helps us recover from heartbreak.
(5) Asked if he felt nostalgic, Obama replied: “Of course.” With those two words and his last presidential words immortalised on the web, he was out.
(6) "[They] actually made me feel nostalgic for Billy Crystal, something I didn't think was possible," he wrote.
(7) Hey, I say, when I look at this record it makes me feel nostalgic for my youth, and I didn't even write the songs, so God knows what it does for you.
(8) and a mother showing off her own placenta almost make one nostalgic for the days of annual round-robin newsletters.
(9) Even the HMC , mouthpiece of the independent sector, is reported to have spoken out against a "knee-jerk return to the nostalgic golden age of O-levels".
(10) Reuters Photograph: Reuters “I think one of the strengths of nostalgia is that even if they have not had a good childhood, most people have at least one nostalgic memory that they cherish and that they can use repeatedly.
(11) In one experiment, subjects in whom nostalgia had been induced were asked to set up a room for a meeting – those in a nostalgic frame of mind consistently set up the chairs closer than those in the control.
(12) To those critics who will accuse him of romanticism and nostalgia, his defiant reply is the first page of the introduction: things were better in the past, and it's not nostalgic to say so.
(13) "Union Jacks is all about bringing back nostalgic British classics using the best of artisanal ingredients.
(14) The line from New Labour nostalgics that “we won three elections” misses the point for millions.
(15) Adepitan has just made a powerful programme about polio in Nigeria, and it has left him both angry and nostalgic.
(16) (For Wilson's character, who romanticises that era, it's a dream come true – but the Parisians of the 20s are themselves nostalgic for the 1890s.
(17) In another experiment, those in nostalgic moods were asked to write essays, which were compared in a blind judging process with those of peers who’d had no induced feelings of nostalgia.
(18) When Ikea closes in the near future (as, please God, it will), will I be tweeting my nostalgic feelings about its contribution to extending allen keys and misery worldwide?
(19) On the left, some people seem nostalgic for the 1970s; on the right, eyes mist over at the mention of the 1990s.
(20) Nor does last month’s Singapore race fill the British driver with a nostalgic glow.
Reminiscent
Definition:
(a.) Recalling to mind, or capable of recalling to mind; having remembrance; reminding one of something.
(n.) One who is addicted to indulging, narrating, or recording reminiscences.
Example Sentences:
(1) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(2) Results of this sort are reminiscent of several related findings that have been attributed to auditory adaptation or enhancement, or to a temporally developing critical-band filter.
(3) Engagement in reminiscing may be stable during old age or may follow a developmental course.
(4) Phagosomes and dense bodies reminiscent of Russel bodies also occurred in the Mikulicz cells, in the vacuoles of which formations representing Klebsiella rhinoscleromatis were demonstrated.
(5) It is the combination of his company's pan-African and industrialist vision – reminiscent of the aspirations of African independence pioneers like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah – and its relentless financial growth that has set Dangote apart.
(6) This cardiomyopathy is reminiscent of that described in human noninsulin-dependent diabetes.
(7) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
(8) Alternative localization of MC25 to different cellular compartments and antigen shifting are reminiscent of the behavior of certain developmentally regulated antigens in Drosophila and Xenopus.
(9) Such characteristics are reminiscent of the behavior of variegating position-effects in Drosophila and the application of this paradigm to human disease phenotypes provides both a mechanism by which differential genome imprinting may be accomplished as well as genetic models that may explain the clinical association of syntenic diseases, the association between tumor progression and specific chromosomal aneuploidy and the unusual inheritance characteristics of many diseases.
(10) When leisons reminiscent of sporotrichosis are encountered, a careful history of the patient's travels should be made, as well as a search for the organism of leischmaniasis in tissue smears, histopathological sections, and cultured media.
(11) It is argued that for Resistance veterans only the intrusive reminiscences of the stressful events discriminate this constellation of symptoms from subjects with an anxious-depressive symptomatology.
(12) It may be important to use reality orientation techniques with confused residents before involving them in a reminiscence group.
(13) The impairment produced by combined serotonergic-cholinergic lesions is reminiscent of that seen in memory-impaired aged rats.
(14) You can argue about what constitutes a race “riot” these days – and why the hell we are seeing teargas every other evening in the suburbs, or Jim Crow-reminiscent police dogs in the year 2014.
(15) Studies by light and electron microscopy showed that these histiocytes disintegrated to liberate their lamellar inclusions into the alveolar spaces, producing a picture reminiscent of alveolar proteinosis.
(16) The formation of groups of associated cells and the ability of some cells to initiate synchronous firing in a larger cell group through recurrent pathways is reminiscent of several models of information storage and recall in the cortex.
(17) Scanning and transmission electron microscopy revealed that promastigotes of the invasive species entered fibroblasts flagellum-end first through pseudopodia-like structures formed on the host cell surface, reminiscent of "induced phagocytosis."
(18) Britain's most senior police officer was tonight forced to admit he was "embarrassed" that his officers had lost control of the capital's streets in scenes reminiscent of last year's G20 demonstration.
(19) There's no doubt that MacMaster expended an enormous amount of effort compiling the blog and creating Gay Girl's persona: poems, long imaginary reminiscences – even warning readers to treat some other websites "with a very large grain of salt" – but to what purpose?
(20) This matrix is deposited between cell layers in a manner reminiscent of the secondary corneal stroma, but is not deposited as densely or as organized as would be found in situ.