Sentence examples for evocative sense from inspiring English sources

This is a striking novel, full of passion, an evocative sense of place and subtle insights into venal, corrupt minds.

Though lauded for its evocative sense of place and sharply observed characters, the novel was deemed plotless and confusing by some critics.

"And 'the railroad' is one of those phrases like 'the west' that has an immediate and evocative sense of space and light, and distance and hope, and fear.

Satrapi and her co-director, Vincent Paronnaud, make a little go a long way: the dots of snow falling on a sooty Tehran landscape show that you don't need to be David Lean to conjure an evocative sense of place.

Although the developers of both the Artisan Lofts and the Hit Factory base their marketing strategies on their buildings' industrial provenance, the evocative sense of open space that made the loft lifestyle such a liberating alternative is somewhat compromised.

Here, Ms. Lessing's wonderfully evocative sense of place -- reminiscent of that displayed in her earliest fiction -- kicks in, providing us with a visceral sense of Sylvia's arduous day-to-day life.

From Ms. Wang, she chose a bridal gown, but one that was red, since the color was both provocative, in the context of a wedding, and evocative, in the sense of China.

I love the vignettes of food in the book because they're so devastating, so evocative of that sense of moral and cultural superiority that foodies have, simply because they like to eat well.

In his fondness for squalor and defeat, the reader will find echoes of Juan Carlos Onetti; in his spare but evocative prose we sense the presence, at the same time predictable and entirely surprising, of the early works of Gabriel García Márquez.

His first novel, Soldiers' Pay (1926), given a Southern though not a Mississippian setting, was an impressive achievement, stylistically ambitious and strongly evocative of the sense of alienation experienced by soldiers returning from World War I to a civilian world of which they seemed no longer a part.

We all know that smell is one of the most evocative of the senses.