Sentence examples for evoke the emotion from inspiring English sources

If the philosophical tradition that suggests the empathy-altruism hypothesis is on the right track, and Batson believes it is, we would predict that when people feel empathy they will desire to help those who evoke the emotion, and thus they will be more inclined to engage in helping behavior than people who do not feel empathy.

Lights lining the steps evoke the emotion and intensity of a fashion show.

Any of those adagios are very difficult to truncate, because one chord is just held long enough to evoke the emotion before changing to the next.

He was joined by a sycophant doing a bad impersonation of Milo Yiannopoulos (who, himself, does a bad impersonation of Christopher Hitchens), who tried to evoke the emotion of being a bereaved family receiving a "knock on the door tonight" – as if his performance, his shoddy instrumentalisation of tragedy for racist ends, was an authentic expression of care for those families.

An objective correlative is an object, several objects, or a series of events (all concrete things) that evoke the emotion or idea of the poem.

They evoke the emotions of being lost or left, or loss in general.

"Sometimes a photograph feels sufficient to evoke the emotions of a situation," van Agtmael wrote of the trip.

The course Fox is pursuing to stimulate viewership for the new season is to evoke the emotions generated in earlier seasons.

The off-balance feeling is designed to evoke the emotions of the German Jews who fled before World War II, and found themselves adapting to foreign countries and cultures.

The performance of the text seems like figure skaters' compulsory routines, not freestyle ones; Wilson's glorious language, carefully yoked to the drama, doesn't evoke the emotions that the actors are experiencing but merely substitutes for them.

"Before Swim, I never felt I had anything particular to write about, so I'd come up with these fictional sketches to evoke the emotions of melancholy or whatever".