It's crazy to upend this complex system to return to some nostalgic vision of a 1950s industrial wonderland.

Measured against nostalgic visions of paradise, the present is bound to pale.

He had a nostalgic vision of his corner table, with the newspaper and the chessboard and the everflowing gin.

"The pool house is the nostalgic vision of the old seaside cottage," Mr. Kulok said.

Because it's too much in love with its own nostalgic vision to take any moral risks, "Bon Voyage" is finally not a great movie.

But in her gently nostalgic vision, nothing and no one stays bad for long.

In a nostalgic vision of small-town long-ago, two little boys become intrigued by a strange carnival that has come to town.

Mr. Dole's glimpse into this sorry aspect of America's past was different from the nostalgic vision he projected in accepting his party's nomination.

This idealized and nostalgic vision of the simple life, however, was sometimes contested and even ridiculed, both in antiquity and later on.

The Shànghǎi of even the late 1980s is now a nostalgic vision of a vanished city of yore.