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thepalmsnegril.com, double rooms from $80 a night plus taxes The rocky stretch of Negril known as the West End became a mecca for hippies in the 1960s, and Banana Shout evokes the best of the old bohemian spirit, perched on the edge of the cliffs right next door to Rick's Cafe, the famous sunset diving spot.
The GAA evokes feelings that go so deep you can be completely unaware of them until something happens to reveal their power.
On Water Jump or These Nights Never End it perfectly evokes how it feels to be lost on the dancefloor at 3am, but it's creative and imaginative enough to sound perfect on headphones long after that small-hours moment's passed.
I think you try to find something that evokes the character to you; it could be something they say, or a set of actions or attitudes expressed.
My colleague Michael Safi, who is also a duel Melbourne/Sydney citizen, says of Tiger: "Even its Melbourne terminal evokes the airline's cheap as chips ethos, providing the bare minimum required of a building, which is to say, shelter.
2. When choosing the winners, the judges will be looking for the most well composed, artistic and original image that evokes the best interpretation of the theme.
We've done this not because we think it is a more accurate representation of the original Russian language, but because we are inspired by the play to make a night in the theatre that evokes the same sense of loss and tenderness and fear that reading Chekhov evokes in us.
It evokes the serenity of a dojo along with some of the buzzy excitement of one of those clothing stores that displays very little clothing.
I still smile when I think of the skinflint behaviour the card evokes – of Aberdonians fleeing their homes before charitable tin-rattlers come knocking at the door, and then hurrying back again to avoid similar tin-rattlers, this time armed with tiny flags that, quick as lightning, they plunge into your lapel.
I think of the Northamptonshire dialect verb to crizzle, for instance, a verb for the freezing of water that evokes the sound of a natural activity too slow for human hearing to detect ("And the white frost 'gins crizzle pond and brook", wrote John Clare in 1821).
Maggie O'Farrell's Instructions for a Heatwave (Tinder Press) is as good as any of her previous books and evokes the mood created by the heatwave of 1976.
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The primary grammatical function of "evokes" is as a transitive verb . It describes the action of something causing a feeling, memory, or image to arise in the mind. As seen in the examples from Ludwig, it connects a subject (e.g., 'Banana Shout') with the feeling or idea it creates (e.g., 'the best of the old bohemian spirit').
Expression frequency: Very common
