evocation

How To Use evocation In A Sentence

• Two victims die in the first scene, an effective evocation of place, character and a whole range of powerful emotions. Times, Sunday Times
• It is a dazzling display of luminous atoms, a kind of pantheistic evocation. The French Impressionists (1860-1900)
• The same year she created her first piece, which was an evocation of a Gothic Virgin.
• Young’s evocation of reggae is not located in language or even a evoking of the discourse of reggae. Translation: Better Than Never Kissing At All : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
• There is a troubling darkness in its soul, which the righteous rhetoric and cynical evocation of God seem only to enhance.
• With such diverse output as her world music album Where Rivers Meet an evocation of her Bengali connections, with clarinettist brother Idris and the thrilling jazz virtuosity of her trio's recent live recording, pianist Zoe Rahman covers plenty of contemporary bases. This week's new live music
• A signature-revocation effort by opponents made a dent in the final tally but was not enough to keep the initiative off the ballot.
• As for enlisting the resourceful Wilma production for being "more evocative of the real-life Housman's seething emotions than the text itself," Mr. Mendelsohn unluckily picks an evocation which is prescribed in the stage directions. 'The Invention of Love': An Exchange
• The magic of his evocation of the feminine apart, his portrayal of the dependent daughter and sister, the rejected lover, and the madwoman, is magnificent.
• One would expect the relentless cacophony of vulgarities and the unrelenting evocation of disturbing mental images first to shock, then to have a numbing effect on the audience.