In the early years, it was a steep learning curve for me, spending time in homes where faith was the primary reality, Allah was constantly invoked, English was a second language, and privacy and reticence were givens.
Brexit supporters in the United Kingdom have also tried to invoke English nationalism by recalling an idyllic but simultaneously glorious past, when Great Britain was sovereign over its destiny; Britannia was ruling the waves, and--most importantly--foreigners and immigrants were confined to their proper place (presumably not England).
(Bodi previously was famous as the player whose selection for a contract by KwaZulu-Natal prompted the South African Kevin Pietersen to invoke his English descent and change countries).
The very wealth of material Gubar has to deal with (she invokes Latin sermons and English poems and German films; paintings and stained-glass windows, even the music of Bach) shows how widely ramifying the Judas story is.
Mr. Lytle's melancholy futurism and Grandaddy's watery guitar-and-synth sound invoke Radiohead, an English band that is becoming as influential as Pavement.
"When you ask a hornist to name a famous hornist from that time, the name everyone would give was Dennis Brain," said Kate Pritchett, an assistant professor of French horn at Oklahoma City University, invoking the celebrated English player, who died in 1957.
He invoked the old English tradition of sin eating by means of burial cakes, in which a loaf of bread was put on a funeral bier or a corpse, and a paid member of the community would eat the bread, representing sin, to absolve and comfort the deceased.
Our expectations, set by centuries of literary tradition that Moss (who gained her doctorate in English Literature long before she started writing novels) knowingly invokes, lead us to anticipate events, rather than their absence.
Almendárez, meanwhile, invokes God as often as a Christian broadcaster on the English-language dial.
In his mellifluous, Oxford-accented English, he invoked the words of a student who once cornered him in a hallway.
