"evoke wonder" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It means to bring forth a feeling of awe, amazement, or curiosity. This phrase can be used in various contexts, such as describing a beautiful scene or an impressive accomplishment. Example: The sunset over the mountains was truly breathtaking, evoking wonder in all who witnessed it.
A kind reader has suggested that my writing occasionally does evoke wonder, however, as in "I wonder how you keep your job".
The works that come from laboratories have a quality that can evoke wonder: a soft-bodied robot designed to move like a caterpillar, and movies of a circular pool with wave-generation machines ringed around it that beat the water in rhythms and that can form letters of the alphabet.
Although her works evoke wonder, to call the process magic would undermine Heimer's efforts.
Take that overused word literally: "Hugo Cabret" evokes wonder.
My formative years in Tidewater Virginia listening to Hank Snow, Lefty Frizzell, Webb Pierce, Mel Tillis and Porter Wagoner prepared me not at all for my high school years in Fairfield County, Conn., where my incomprehensible musical tastes evoked wonder and even pity from my peers.
This approach is best realised on the stunning Lucette Stranded on the Island, which simultaneously evokes wonder and disorientation, while the instrumentation seems to echo the rhythms of breaking waves; Night Song, meanwhile, is more stark, but no less emotionally powerful for it.
The performance of the players evoked wonder.
"A wall came down in Berlin," President-elect Barack Obama said, in his acceptance speech in Chicago on the night of 4 November 2008, evoking wonders past, present and to come.
Taylor's book doesn't evoke the wonder of "Star Wars" so much as the strangeness of its vast success.
His illustrations evoke the wonder in the everyday world and celebrate the innocence and mischievousness of childhood.
Now it is a bowling lounge designed to evoke the wonder and faint dread of a New York subway station, with graffiti adorning the walls and the bowling lanes running like subway tracks.
