unnostalgic
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Adjective[edit]
unnostalgic (comparative more unnostalgic, superlative most unnostalgic)
- Not nostalgic.
- 1990, D. Jasper, C. Crowder, European Literature and Theology in the Twentieth Century: Ends of Time, Springer, →ISBN, page 107:
- 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.
- 2001, Nicholas Dames, Amnesiac Selves: Nostalgia, Forgetting, and British Fiction, 1810-1870, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 49:
- 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 ...
- 2008, Katherine E. Hoffman, We Share Walls: Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 130:
- 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).
- 2011, J. Jackson, A. Milne, J. Williams, 5/1/1968: Rethinking France's Last Revolution, Springer, →ISBN, page 284:
- The film's poetic yet defiantly unnostalgic and deromanticized evocation of '68 thus marks a decisive move away from the ...