He lived a distorted copy of his real life, tinged in equal portions by nightmarish tension and an odd, unlooked-for romantic nostalgia.

I do not have a romantic nostalgia for the past but a binding love for the environment, producing an emotive link with the past.

In the end we have some trouble adequately separating the narrator's sweetly romantic nostalgia from the author's, so not enough of the celebration seems earned.

At its most current, Russian fashion is voluminous and steeped in a romantic nostalgia.

Illustrators and painters had limned the ancient sites with classical gravity or romantic nostalgia; photographers could do no less.

It could be a place of both romantic nostalgia and brutal hardship.

The weaknesses are of exaggeration, and in Illich's case a romantic and utopian nostalgia for a past that never existed.

Crises made national cultural factors "collapse": romantic nostalgia became applied to Portuguese declined condition, being the rest of Europe considered the real focus of civilization.

Yet the threat of romantic nostalgia does hang over this appropriated work, which often comes out more as illustration than inspiration.

Gordie's book will be an exercise in self-serving romantic nostalgia.