Sentence examples for invoke the image from inspiring English sources

WHEN cosmologists try to picture how the universe came to be, they invoke the image of a Great Creator hunched over a keyboard, engaging in a high-stakes game that might be called Cosmic Sim City.

When the Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam wanted to explain the tantalizing notion of broken symmetry, one of the key ideas in particle physics, he would invoke the image of diners seated at a circular table.

One adviser, William J. Bratton, the former police commissioner, went so far as to invoke the image of Times Square packed at midnight on Dec. 31 as a potential target for terrorism at the very moment that Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's term will be ending.

Commentators often invoke the image of an aggressive Russia flexing its muscles, but this narrative is not enough to fully understand Crimea.

No doubt this is partly why Stand Your Ground supporters so often invoke the image of woman in an alley fighting off a violent rapist to justify expanding the uses of deadly force.

Then the horn played the main theme, just a simple tune, like a mellow hunting call or, to invoke the images that Bruckner suggested, the morning calls from the towers of a medieval city.

Party members invoked the image of a chowkidar, or "watchman" in Hindi.

He added that Mr. Keita had "invoked the image of General de Gaulle".

He invokes the image of a successful sumo wrestler and says giants can be nimble if they are clever.

Calling people gammons invokes the image of an emotionally charged Brexit-voting contingent, who don't think with their heads.

"You deceived a machine," said Judge Sonia Sotomayor, invoking the image of Big Brother from George Orwell's novel, "1984".