'evoke envy' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe emotions that someone is feeling as a result of the success of another person or group of people. For example, "His new job and high salary evoked envy in his co-workers."
To direct the torrent of envious rage to an opponent, all the political demagogue must do is create an image that evokes envy--someone more attractive, more intelligent, more articulate, more popular--and then provide a triggering moralistic rationale to "justify" unleashing the envy-based rage against the target.
It earns a net margin of 8%, nearly three times more than the industry average, evoking the envy of every rival.
Others identify musical notes with colors; still others mix touch sensations with strong emotions, so that sandpaper might evoke disgust, velvet envy, wood grain guilt.
The researchers found that Facebook postings about things such as expensive holidays, new houses or cars, or happy relationships can evoke feelings of envy among surveillance users.
In fact, researchers at the University of Missouri have found that Facebook use can evoke feelings of envy and can lead to symptoms of depression.
Mr. Baldwin convincingly evokes the churning envy that the boy's strange rites have ignited in Dysart's ashen heart, and his sorrowful ambivalence at the idea of curing the boy of the fantasy into which he escapes from the workaday world and the nagging conflicts of his home.
In contrast, envy evoked by negative iniquity (i.e. when loosing a lottery to others' gain) leads people to deceptively hurt others [5].
The results show that envy can "evoke a functionally coordinated cascade of cognitive processes," as the researchers put it in the October issue of The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
But it has taken nothing more than a cup of coffee and a backpack to show that American officials can still evoke awe, respect and envy among Chinese, even if unwittingly.
The housewife's vague but incessant activity is nicely captured in "ply", and the credible little adjective, "envied," in "envied kiss", evokes the children's scrambling rivalry for their father's attention.
