Sentence examples for attempted to evoke from inspiring English sources

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

"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.

They attempted to evoke the ineffable intuitions and sense impressions of man's inner life and to communicate the underlying mystery of existence through a free and highly personal use of metaphors and images that, though lacking in precise meaning, would nevertheless convey the state of the poet's mind and hint at the "dark and confused unity" of an inexpressible reality.

There's navigation of a different sort in The Indivisible Present (Modern Art Oxford, 6 Feb to 16 Apr), which tracks how artists – Douglas Gordon, Pierre Huyghe and Elizabeth Price among them – have attempted to evoke a non-lineal, alternative sense of time in their work.

He attempted to evoke Conrad Hall's work on Depression-set film The Day of the Locust, as well as match what he called the "leanness" of Mystic Rivers look.

Using the cartoon created during class, write a poem that attempts to evoke the same opinion, action or mood.

All too often when people attempt to evoke such a distant period, they come across as cloying pastiche; Bugg somehow managed to sound entirely authentic.

Commissioned by the Monterey Jazz Festival, where it had its premiere last year, this suitelike work attempts to evoke an experience, a sense of place.

Stories like "Evolution" and "The Death of Cool" attempt to evoke bloodshed on a large scale, and fail just as largely.

Last year, the magazine introduced a channel on YouTube with Web-only videos that attempt to evoke the spirit of the campus.