"evocative sight" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe something that has an emotional or nostalgic quality. For example, you could say, "The evocative sight of the old family home brought back fond memories of my childhood."
Viewed through the screen of trees, it is a moody, evocative sight, like the bass line of a slow jazz tune.
But daily life is full of triggers too, whether in an unexpected call from an old friend, a question from a child or an evocative sight — one's family portrait, say, propped up under the desk lamp as a reminder of what matters most.
Were managers to wear tracksuits bearing their names across the back, spectators in the Toyota Stand would view one of the more evocative sights: Clough v Ferguson.
Tintern Abbey is one of most beautiful and evocative sights in all of Britain.
This was a sight quite evocative of Richard Strauss's September; here summer smiles, exhausted.
Like A Portrait of the Artist, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha is a description of a Dublin childhood that delves into deep and evocative detail about the sights, sounds, smells, cruelties, triumphs and bizarre dialogues that schoolboys tend to encounter.
She thinks of Bartram in the deep semitropical forest, far from his wife, aroused by the sight of an evocative blue flower that exists as a weed in her own garden, writing, in what is surely a double-entendre, or, if not, deeply Freudian: How fantastical looks the libertine Clitoria, mantling the shrubs, on the vistas skirting the groves!
Mont Saint Michel, France - As over 3 million annual visitors can attest, there are few sights quite as evocative or romantic as the spire of Mont Saint Michel Abbey rising above the tranquil Normandy coast.
The sight before me is powerfully evocative.
But some of the most evocative spaces may be hiding in plain sight — take the Church of the Intercession, a grand Episcopalian pile way uptown on Broadway at 155th St ."The Crypt Sessions" (which has hosted the violinist Amy Schroeder, of the Attacca Quartet, above) is drawing capacity audiences; on April 5, it presents "Labyrinth," a concert by the fascinating Israeli pianist David Greilsammer.
Other evocative shapes, more retiring, hide tantalizingly out of sight until a visitor turns a corner, descends a few steps or glances over a shoulder.
