It is not easy to evoke the milieu of an era in music.
The same "ironic errors," as Dr. Wegner calls them, are just easy to evoke in the real world.
The little browser game A Dark Room – apparently set in prehistoric Earth, although that gets more complicated as the story unfolds – made me feel an unnerving mixture of pride, self-disgust, determination and guilt, none of them emotions that other media find it easy to evoke.
His term for the Ground of Being was "Father," but it was easy to evoke the language of the Vedic seers and substitute Brahman or Self.
"Fears and prejudices directed against minority communities are too easy to evoke and exaggerate, often to serve the political agendas of those who promote those fears," he wrote.
But this score was also inspired by jazz-inflected American symphonic music of the 1920s through the '50s, from Gershwin to Copland to Bernstein, something that is a lot easier to evoke.
This being New York, of course, those days of near bankruptcy, graffiti-scarred subway cars, escalating crime rates and a dwindling population as the faint of heart fled to easier climes, evoke a fond nostalgia for some.
Easy stretching evokes mundane details from our quotidian lives, until someone asks the all-important question: Where should we go for brunch?
Movements of the whiskers are easier to evoke if the whiskers are held in a protracted position (Gioanni & Lamarche, 1985; see Haiss & Schwarz, 2005), perhaps reflecting the fact that whisker retraction is the most common evoked movement.
Our finding that only disgusting pictures, especially in the animal-reminder category, differentiate conservatives from liberals might be indicative of a primacy for disgust in the pantheon of human aversions, but it is also possible that this result is due to the fact that, compared to threat, disgust is much easier to evoke with visual images on a computer screen.
