Erol's son Erdil does not go misty-eyed over the balls and dances of the past.
But how is creativity really treated, beyond the reality distortion field of such misty-eyed ad campaigns?
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Never misty-eyed, he keeps finding the right anecdote to support his view of American exceptionalism.
He refuses to get misty-eyed about the "golden age" of teenage driving, however.
Instead, there is a misty-eyed alignment of the state with the public interest.
The misty-eyed brunette appeared in the swimsuit issue for a 13 consecutive years.
Considering that record, moderate Republicans in pursuit of the White House have every cause to get misty-eyed when they hear the name Richard Nixon.
The Democrats may be misty-eyed about their choice of a nominee.
So has a warning from Lord Carlile, an independent reviewer of anti-terror legislation, that there are about 20 other imams in British mosques who go misty-eyed when they talk about the attack on New York's Twin Towers.
Some misty-eyed commentators hark back to the honest days of the 1970s, when the revelation that his wife held a few thousand dollars in a then-illegal overseas bank account was enough to make the prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, resign.
Misty-eyed historians often cite Nixon's clumsy demise as the end of an age of innocence in U.S. politics as voters realized that even presidents were willing to sacrifice truth, justice and the American way in search of a quick vote.
Talk to elderly Cariocas (as present or former residents of the city are known) about the favelas of the 1950s and they often turn misty-eyed, recalling peaceful places with the best views in the city and plenty of good live music.
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Now paranoid parents would be more likely to suffer misty-eyed nostalgia over the era when gaming involved constant and varied use of the young mind's imagination, as opposed to today's games which typically offer the user images where once there was only the mind's eye.
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"I don't want to get misty eyed about the past, but it is clear to me that something important has been lost - for both teachers and taught, " she said.
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