The only thing that can prevent violence in the world is invoking love, compassion and mercy in people' souls, which are also in the essence of the three Abrahamic religions.
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Often, as they explained why he had to go, Corbyn's opponents would invoke their love of the party as their guiding motivation.
Although many of the rooms focused on a particular school of painting, she combined different media from varying locales and periods hoping to invoke a love for art and not to teach its history.
And – listen up Donald Trump, who has been cluelessly invoking his love of the Bible over the last few weeks – if our politicians don't like the basic principles, then they shouldn't claim the Christian mantle in the first place.
He invokes his love for Desdemona, insisting that his psyche was "perplexed in the extreme" by Iago's wily manipulations, and then he tells one final story, from his time in Aleppo, when he came upon "a malignant and a turbaned Turk" who was beating up a Venetian.
In 1997, Ephron wrote a piece for The New Yorker about Krispy Kreme, and invoked her love of doughnut machines (if not the doughnuts themselves): The machine drops six rings of batter at a time, and the doughnuts travel on green wire-mesh trays into a ten-foot-tall proof box, where the trays rise and fall like elevator cars until the doughnuts puff up and are ready for the oil.
A few years ago, in an outburst of private pain at a public gathering, he invoked his love for family and nation.
But true emotion demands a dialogue, and, like James Merrill's extraordinary work "The Changing Light at Sandover," Bidart's poems are a kind of séance, one in which he tries to invoke and communicate love, even if that love can no longer be achieved, tasted, seen, touched.
And if the distinction invoked a love-hate reaction (or even a love-to-hate reaction), then so much the better.
