nostalgie de la boue

Definitions

A yearning for something base or vile.

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Examples

“You’re one of those half-insane, perverted women who must run⟳ after depravity, the nostalgie de la boue.”

“Politics, like⟳ Rock, Pop and Camp, has its uses; but to put⟳ one's whole status on the line for nostalgie de la boue in any of its forms would be unprincipled.”

“The fastidious and solitary public-schoolboy [George Orwell] dosses down with tramps and tarts and forces himself to endure bedbugs and chamberpots and lockups. The extraordinary thing about this nostalgie de la boue is that it is undertaken with a humorous self-consciousness and without a tinge of religious abjection or mortification.”

“Mr. Smith [Shane Smith] called the appeal of the trailer-park aesthetic purveyed by Vice the latest twist⟳ on bohemia's old nostalgie de la boue.”

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