Some tightly controlled, almost robotically repetitive in their imagery, others more freehand in their doodling, they evoke man-made and natural phenomena, among them patterns from nature, electronic circuitry, virus colonies, active spermatozoa, musical notations.
Her Voices vividly evokes men in the trenches at Christmas.
Named a "sea monk," because its smooth-looking head evoked men of the cloister, it resembled, in an original sketch, a large squid.
THE Arab street: the well-worn phrase evokes men clustered around dusty coffeehouse tables, discussing the events of the day with well-earned cynicism between puffs on a hookah -- yet suddenly able to turn into a mob, powerful enough to sweep away governments.
In the nineteen-seventies, a number of black female writers — Gayl Jones and Toni Cade Bambara among them — began to work in the black vernacular and to use "nigger" to evoke a man's world that was as interesting to them as it was interested in them.
Is Mr. Spacey trying to evoke a man desperate to outrace his demons?
In Britain, the word farmer can readily evoke a man with 100,000 hectares, several Range Rovers and his own helicopter.
The densely painted face showed a vibrancy that had been obscured as had the small number of brushstrokes needed to evoke the man's detailed white collar.
Will the very 21st-century figure who is Mr. Combs (a k a P. Diddy), whose career has been a triumph of nerve over probability, be able to evoke a man of thwarted dreams from the mid-20th century?
How anomalous it seemed when I first walked down this Right Bank street, past the toxically hip Hôtel Costes and the usual cluster of skinny boys in faux-hawks and Dior jeans, only to come upon a storefront of headless mannequins clad in the kind of staid jackets that instantly evoke "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit".
I found myself remembering Erdoğan's exasperation: "Are these things really more important than the human?" I remembered, too, how Kocabaş had told me that, of all the discoveries at Yenikapı, he was most moved by the Neolithic footprints: because they "directly evoke the man," they tell us something that none of the other objects, even the shipwrecks, can.
