Sentence examples for evocation in from inspiring English sources

He coined, and loved, memorable phrases, and enjoyed the patterns of association and evocation in which they were passed on.

Even the triangle has dark memories, as its evocation in necromancy and in the military usages above indicates.

Her first-person narration is not a transcription of a 13-year-old voice, but an evocation, in adult language, of a barely adolescent mind-set.

The Mackintosh "house" in concrete did not attempt a full replica externally, but is powerful as a ghostly evocation in white-stained concrete: memory made real.

Notwithstanding the fact that barbed wire didn't exist in Clare's time, this is the most effective evocation in the book: of social change expressed in traumatised Romantic poetry.

The aims were to understand the effects of evocation in different environmental settings on consumers liking and to explore the differences of these effects based on consumer involvement levels.

There can be few more vivid evocations in art of how it feels to be in love.

The more contemporary evocations in these pages show that there are now many ways in which we can be European.

Mr. Thomas painted Ruggles's quirky, aphoristic "Evocations" in bold strokes, and the orchestra's brass and strings responded in kind.

Written in a pastiche of 18th-century prose, the novel is one of the best evocations in English of the atmosphere of a past age.

These evocations, in this adept translation by Linda Coverdale, are a reminder of one of the most perceptive things Alain de Botton had to say in "How to Think More About Sex," his tidy self-help volume from last year.