Unnostalgic

He seems an unnostalgic journalist in comparison with that generation: he was not disgusted specifically with modern life, nor did he in the thirties hanker for a pre-industrial culture – as the modernists, following the Romantics, had.

Pivotal to this unnostalgic remembrance is the insistence that Willoughby as he was experienced is Willoughby as he was, that no interpretive machinery can be brought to bear on these memories of his distress; the sense is that any ...

This is a terribly unnostalgic depiction of the implications of difficult living conditions on the Soussi's fundamental well-being (hunger) and sociability (difficult personality).

The film's poetic yet defiantly unnostalgic and deromanticized evocation of '68 thus marks a decisive move away from the ...