Sentence examples for evoke moods from inspiring English sources

"It shows how classical music can evoke moods," he said.

The composers of this era attempted to describe scenes and evoke moods by the use of rich harmonies and a wide palette of timbre.

But most of the paintings woven into the novel's pages are there because Proust loved them and used them to amplify descriptions and evoke moods.

Thus, lines moving upward express feelings of joy and aspiration, those directing the eye downward evoke moods of sadness or defeat, while lines at angles opening to the right of a design are more agreeable and welcoming than those spreading outward to the left.

The revelations of "Outrospective" are seemingly nonstop, including the purely tribal "Machines R Us" and the warbling ballad "Not Enuff Love". As impressive as the record's diversity is its ability to evoke moods both light and dark within seconds of each other.

Rather, they used tonal contrasts to evoke mood and feeling, rather like a piece by Chopin.

Shakespeare used vocal music to evoke mood, as in "Come, thou monarch," and, while doing so, to provide ironic commentary on plot or character.

Wolf's Mignon songs, furtive and strange, ended the program with emotional expressions of almost photographic acuity: melodies made to go where the words dictate; accompaniments keenly tuned to evoke mood.

"Ondine" is, in short, an abstract ballet imprisoned in a 19th-century framework, a poem rather than a tale, and it's at its most successful when it's not trying to tell a story but rather to evoke mood and emotion.

But his interest is not in names-and-dates autobiography so much as in evoking moods and atmospheres.

He developed an individual technique and was skilled in evoking moods and images suggested by the poetic texts of the madrigals.