Sentence examples for evoke suffering from inspiring English sources

In another place "Lotus" might evoke suffering and transcendence, but the Rubin's plush, decorous setting makes it look benignly ornamental.

As a result, when she kept stretching her arms in gestures suggesting crucifixions, she seemed to be striking poses rather than evoking suffering.

He even reminded her of a difficult love affair in order to evoke more suffering.

Striking moments included a melancholy solo for Carla Rigon and one evoking suffering, danced by Chase Granoff.

But he also evoked Palestinians' suffering, describing their situation as "intolerable".

The elongated, dramatically suspended melodic line, each note milked by Cooke for every drop of nuance, evokes generations of suffering and waiting.

What translator Martin Chalmers describes as Bernhard's "verbal logjam" evokes madness and suffering to the extent that we experience them ourselves.

King began his paean to black majesty with the line "abused and scorned though we may be," a reference to the slavery-era spiritual "'Buked and Scorned," which evokes the slaves' suffering and their conviction that "Jesus died to set me free".

The biblical texts used in the libretto evoke human suffering, and the work ends with an uplifting praise of God.

Virgil's Eclogues one and nine, written during the civil wars, poignantly evoke the suffering of the upheaval that ironically inspired Rome's highest intellectual and artistic achievements.

Armand Amar's score, a wailing pastiche of Middle Eastern and Western styles, helps evoke his suffering and longing, but it is both annoyingly repetitive and, like Schlomo's monologues to the moon, mawkish.