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UK
/ɪvˈɒkətˌɪv/
]
[ US /ɪˈvɑkətɪv/ ]
[ US /ɪˈvɑkətɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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serving to bring to mind
a campaign redolent of machine politics
cannot forbear to close on this redolent literary note
How To Use evocative In A Sentence
- Asco also created evocative titles, such as "A La Mode" and "No Tip," that referred to nonexistent films while constructing themselves as film stars in the process. Max Benavidez: Asco Returns Triumphant to LACMA
- Penguin used to do these great science fiction paperback editions, and they had one series with really evocative paintings — glossy, garish, almost hyperrealist — on the covers. Ballardian » The 032c Interview: Simon Reynolds on Ballard, part 2
- In the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins' evocative phrasing, ‘All is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; and wears man's smudge and shares man's smell.’
- His powerful and evocative voice and his memory will live on in our hearts.
- The book is an amusing and evocative portrayal of his journey and his encounters with Indian babudom and other normal Indians on the way.
- She is at her most urgent and evocative when she assumes the first person; otherwise the work's essayistic quality obtrudes upon the immediacy and music of the poetry.
- An utterly gorgeous album, it paints an evocative portrait of a Scottish coastal village. Times, Sunday Times
- Krishna devotees ardently look upon him as the Godhead, more emotively evocative than most of the other avatars.
- So there's a thought - you could use the visualised image as a gateway back into memory or just a gateway into a centred, balanced or evocative mental space.
- The man, whose name is evocative of fear and hatred in films, stands upright without even a stoop to suggest his 71 years.