That would be wasted breath anyway; Hitler, Goebbels and Leni Riefenstahl have lately been invoked so much by the left and right, even in tacky campaign commercials, that they're becoming as weightless as the Three Stooges.
If you are or have been a Mac user at any time during the past three decades, the site's bound to trigger some nostalgia, and even if you aren't, you'll get a glimpse into why this computing pioneer has managed to invoke so much devotion from its fans, and why Apple executives told MacWorld that the "Mac keeps going forever".
Otherwise, this is a show that doesn't so much invoke the spirit of Christmas as market it.
When his seal employed the style "Renovatio imperii Romanorum" ("Renewal of the empire of the Romans"), this invoked an image not so much of Roman antiquity as of the empire of Charlemagne.
Robert Filliou's little fold-up chess set from 1969 most directly invokes Duchamp: "Optimistic Box #3 — So much the better if you can't play chess (you won't imitate Marcel Duchamp)." Others carry out these ideas in elegant, poetic objects, like Takako Saito's "Sound Chess," reconstructed in 2003 from an earlier version.
"Politicians can gain so much by invoking fear and because money is at the core of that fear and the people who are the most frightened were looking towards their real-estate values, the values of their neighbourhoods and what they might personally lose if the neighbourhood went south.
As for myself, I believe it is superfluous to distress the mind so much and invoke accidental and extrinsic causes to explain a fact that we can judge to depend upon a general and constant law.
When David Cameron, the Tory leader, calls him "a liberal interventionist without a handbrake" he is at least honouring his motives.Ultimately, Labour's mistake may have been not so much invoking ethics (something British statesmen such as Lord Palmerston often did during the country's imperial prime in the 19th century) as failing to define them.
But Drury gives us the wondrous and engaging stuff of real storytelling, of actual inquiry and investigation into the haunting and jokey puzzles of the world, at a time when so much literature stops short of invoking something larger or spends so much time touting grand themes that it forgets to make something happen.
Some officials have argued that invoking it in the Awlaki matter, about which so much is already public, would risk a backlash.
