No camera could evoke a scene that richly.
Like the Symbolists before her, she uses pastel's velvety blending to evoke a scene's mood rather than describe its details.
At times, these first-person jaunts feel awkward, but others achieve their intent, to evoke a scene or individual more vividly.
Literature needed to apply itself to doing the things that photography and film could not — it needed to evoke a scene's inner workings.
Another Office Max online game, "Stuck to a Pole" (stucktoapole.com), evokes a scene from "A Christmas Story" in which a classmate of Ralphie's, Flick, gets his tongue stuck to a metal flagpole on a frigid day.
Video and photos posted by first-responders evoke a scene straight out of a horror movie: mashed up cars covered in slime, slithering hagfish desperately searching for water and roadside ditches brimming with carcasses.
These bare, unworked facts evoke a scene right out of Hemingway, the overcoated wiseguy with the heater, the boy and the cook cowering in the kitchen ("Another bright boy. Ain't he a bright boy?"), the corn whispering in the fields, as poor Ole Andreson waits in his room, knowing that as soon as he goes out he'll get it in the face.
Quick as lightning, Bob Woodward interjected: "You want me to rewrite it?" The quip evoked a scene in the 1976 film All the President's Men in which Woodward, played by Robert Redford, takes umbrage at Dustin Hoffman's Bernstein rewriting one of his stories.
Her ability to evoke a scene in a few short descriptive phrases, even within a Victorian narration, moves the story along and keeps the action front and center.
Mauritanian melodies usually evoke a scene involving masked musicians chanting eloquent poems that speak of beautiful women and faraway places while caressing traditional lutes and standing under the moonlight amid endless golden sand dunes.
