Sentence examples for attempt to evoke from inspiring English sources

These days, Mr. Washington's attempt to evoke that history seems increasingly like an act of desperation.

Pierre wisely makes little attempt to evoke the actual shootings and the suicide of the perpetrator.

There's no attempt to evoke the anonymous intimacy of the confessional.

At last this attempt to evoke ancient rites seemed only a curiosity.

The design of the new office space seems a conscious attempt to evoke a hip Manhattan media company.

The Chronicles of Narnia may have been his attempt to evoke that lost sense of childhood happiness.

She appeared unable to sustain some of the moods her choreography attempted to evoke.

In their attempts to evoke this position, they seem to have turned increasingly to nonhuman figures.

"Satori," danced by Susan Haskell, Yun-Chen Liu and Ms. Dillon, attempted to evoke a state of mystical serenity.

Many Democratic candidates have attempted to evoke both John and Robert Kennedy, but Senator Obama seems to have had more success than most.

His nude "Diana," of which there are several versions, attempts to evoke the feeling of the Classical Greek nude.