Sentence examples for evoked wonder from inspiring English sources

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.

The performance of the players evoked wonder.

Take that overused word literally: "Hugo Cabret" evokes wonder.

A kind reader has suggested that my writing occasionally does evoke wonder, however, as in "I wonder how you keep your job".

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 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.

He offered a few other songs with a Temptations sound — "Just One Kiss" had the backup singer Erika Jerry ably filling in for Joss Stone, who sings it on the new album — and just as earnestly evoked Stevie Wonder and the Jackson Five.

Although her works evoke wonder, to call the process magic would undermine Heimer's efforts.

It creates an internally consistent, seemingly complete universe that evokes horror, wonder, luminous fantasies.

Taylor's book doesn't evoke the wonder of "Star Wars" so much as the strangeness of its vast success.

He credited Kircher with inspiring a new kind of museum, one that evokes both wonder and skepticism.