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Fantasies of invulnerability are suggested, too, by the cyborg, a stock figure in science fiction, which Lee Bul invokes with bionic body parts made in sleek, white porcelain.

The three-part poem "Chanson d'Aventure", describing a journey by ambulance after suffering a stroke, invokes with gentle reverence John Keats, who wrote in a late poem of "This living hand, now warm and capable / of earnest grasping".

What seems most relevant for understanding Qaddafi's reaction to the protests today, though, is the concept of "Jamahiriya," which he invokes, with a vague, insistent mysticism, to say that representative government does not exist in Libya — indeed, government does not exist — because the people's will is one and the same with his: "The authority of the people is achieved, the dream is realized.

"Relationships matter in politics and you have to work at building them," said Senator Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee, who like many Washington figures these days, invokes with nostalgia the friendship between President Ronald Reagan and the House speaker, Thomas P. O'Neill, bitter public adversaries who nonetheless forged a chummy and productive bond after hours.

As those who remain begin to cluster and converge for his funeral, Porterfield traces their stories (with a very personal technique of simple ingenuity) and, in the process, invokes, with slight and tender gestures — and with the remarkable, confessional performances he elicits from his young actors — worlds of experience and feeling.

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However, the term is sometimes invoked with nostalgia, even affection.

"History" is invoked, with dusty maps, charts and treaties.

Terroir is most frequently invoked with reference to wine.

But the column overlooks that such arguments are often invoked with good cause.

Legal maxims are invoked with more frequency in international law, where their breadth and implied universal acceptance has greater appeal.

Their eyes moisten at the mention of Mr. Gulen's name, which is invoked with utmost reverence.

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