Return, for a minute, to the moral disgust that Gyges evokes in us.
No, the point is that it evokes for us a psychological pain so intense that we wince in its presence.
With seemingly slapdash aplomb, the artist evokes for us a sense of that hazy world behind closed eyes.
"Her advice is that we should let ourselves react emotionally and feel whatever anger or sadness being criticised evokes for us.
Like the raking light that exposes ancient lynchets at sunset, such knowledge brings out new detail in the one particular view over a gate which Pavord has loved in all seasons, and which she now evokes for us as it changes through a full year.
Anti-Negative Emotion Condition responses deny that properly understood the emotion that tragedy evokes in us is negative.
"This decision evokes in us a certain amount of sadness, but we accept that this decision, not taken lightly, is best for both Pope Benedict and the Church.
Bosanquet writes that when we "imaginatively contemplate" an art object, we are "able to live in it as an embodiment of our feeling" (Three Lectures, p. 30); there is no ultimate distinction between art and the feelings it evokes in us.
The word "atrocity" evokes in us periods of indescribable human devastation, such as that felt in Nazi Germany, Khmer Rouge Cambodia, 1994 Rwanda, or present-day Darfur.
