Sentence examples for evocation for from inspiring English sources

The clarity of that evocation — "For Bradford" is Mr. Dresser's homage to the cornetist Bobby Bradford, who played with Mr. Coleman — set up a framework for the gig.

Tynan's genius was for evocation, for trapping a performance in ink and making it matter, showing that the theatre could send you back to daily life with enhanced eyes.

The focus is Liszt's sacred music, and the centerpiece of the opening concert was "Via Crucis," his expansive evocation, for piano, choir and vocal soloists, of the 14 Stations of the Cross.

In situation evocation, for example, we spark a response from people that reinforces a tendency we already have -- for example, if I act irritable all the time, the people around me are probably going to treat me with less patience and helpfulness, which will, in turn, stoke my irritability.

Pinterest didn't create this urge to use visual evocations for little pleasure jolts; in fact, its success lies precisely in being behind the curve.

The show splashes about in the period-kitsch playground with happy abandon — there's a scene at a roller disco, and the costumes by Beaver Bauer (a Maupin-worthy name) are a parade of sartorial sense-memory evocations for anyone who lived through the era — but the show never devolves into a generic 1970s theme night.

Alan Johnson's This Boy (Bantam Press) won the Ondaatje award for evocation of place on Monday and the Orwell prize for political writing on Wednesday.

(Woolfe) St . Lukes Chamber Ensemble (Friday) The chamber wing of the elegant Orchestra of St. Luke's presents a Chamber Ensemble oFridayrThethe Divertimento in D, K. 136, and the Horn Quintet in E flat, K. 407), Glière (the "Prelude" and "chamberSong," from Eight Duets for Violin and Cello, Op. 39), and Ingram Marshall ("Evensongs," his 1996 evocation of childhood for string quartet).

Guardian journalist Andrew Brown has won the Orwell book prize for his gentle evocation of his love for Sweden, Fishing in Utopia.

Mr. Knee's references to lovely notions like dancing being a "a gift from God," the memory of coming alive when Adelina Patti sang, kindred souls, passions and discoveries and free spirits, and his wished for evocation of a past when feelings mattered, are sustaining in a tabloid, desensitized culture.

He felt that Day-Lewis was a "man of talent" whose "Marxian" work became "facile and careless" because it substituted attitude for evocation, and opinion for imagination.