Sentence examples for evocative term from inspiring English sources
(He also called the governor a male organ, though he used a more evocative term).
He used the evocative term "vulnerable player" for a soloist in such an exposed circumstance.
Latin America shares these characteristics of "settler colonialism", an evocative term used in discussions about the British empire.
"It's an evocative term which is also provocative and is used too freely for the wrong reasons.
Studying the same phenomenon in the United Kingdom, the economists Maarten Goos and Alan Manning have come up with an evocative term for what is happening — the division of work into "lousy and lovely jobs".
It is easy to ridicule the State Department for replacing the evocative term "rogue nations" with the more diplomatic and touchy-feely "states of concern" when referring to trouble spots like North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan and Cuba.
In describing the phenomenon at a news conference, Dr. Murphy managed to use all three evocative terms -- bubbles and halos, as well as fountains.
On a call with reporters, Glenn Hubbard, the Columbia economist who is one of Mitt Romney's top economic advisers, described the Romney campaign's latest tax proposal in unusually evocative terms.
In manufacturing, by contrast, there are fairly evocative terms to classify production activities (e.g., unit, batch, and mass production), which, when applied to a manufacturing setting, readily convey the essence of the process.
And scientists working to define mental disorders began to slice neurosis into ever finer pieces, like panic disorder, social anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder — all evocative terms that percolated up into common usage, not to mention into online user groups, rock lyrics and TV shows.
Their business plan is simple: trolls (intellectual-property lawyers use less evocative terms like "non-practicing entities" and "patent-assertion entities") make money by threatening companies with expensive lawsuits and then using that cudgel, rather than the merits of a case, to extract a financial settlement.
