Sentence examples for as an invocation from inspiring English sources

Perhaps it was meant as an invocation.

Mr. Lovano used "Crescent," the meditative title track of one of Coltrane's most rewarding albums, as an invocation.

Using time as process and material, Shari's methods of making serve as an invocation of place, of collective and recollected voice, both in the sensory and virtual world.

Yes, the Olympic flame's nationwide, multiday odyssey, so venerated now as an invocation, however vague, of ancient Greece and global fellowship, was Nazi propaganda — an invented tradition that, like the flame itself, we obliviously keep alive.

The process is similar to how some blacks view the adoption of Islam as an invocation of their African roots, said Hisham Aidi, a political science graduate student at Columbia University.

He's a favorite punching bag for the media, ever useful as an invocation of the specter of black power's intrinsic corruption.

It is as radical an invocation of executive power as anything Dick Cheney championed.

Dr. Nagle is content, then, to keep it as her own — an invocation of the sacred for that which is "detestably profane".

Once you've heard the tremulous, ghostly drone in which Yeats recites it, you think of the poem in a completely new way — as an incantation, an invocation, the casting of a spell of memory and desire — and, at least for me, it remains there as a background hum in any reading of his work.

Before the races begin, the MCs spout an invocation that is exactly as patriotic as you'd expect, given that we're in rural Arkansas.

Cruz's night at the Elm Street School, like Rubio's evening in Exeter, was billed as a "town hall," an invocation of a long-standing democratic institution, in which ordinary citizens get to ask candidates questions and weigh their answers.