hearkens back
Recalls the past
Hearkens back means to recall or evoke something from the past.
A building's architecture might hearken back to the Victorian era, or a politician's rhetoric might hearken back to Reagan.
The phrase suggests a conscious return to earlier times, styles, or ideas.
Also spelled harkens back.
- historicismEra determines truth claims
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
- throwbackReturn to ancestral type
- old schoolAdhering to earlier ways
- recollectionRecalled mental image
sentimentality · alludes · introspection · lineage · precedent · tradition · legacy · collective memory · archetype · wistfulness · echoes · ancestry · antiquity · days of yore · homesickness · yearning · reminiscence · bittersweetness
hearkens backanticipates
Expects before it happens
foreshadows · presages · portends · looks ahead · heralds
hearkens backinnovates
Creates novel solutions
pioneers · forges ahead · revolutionizes · reinvents · originates
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