Sentence examples similar to it evokes sadness from inspiring English sources
If it is sad, then you may want your melody to evoke sadness (by slowing it down or adding some minor chords, for example) or you might want to add a twist and combine sad lyrics to upbeat music in order to create a sense of tension and ambiguity.
It was so odd in some respects because when people face death it seems like something that should evoke sadness, but all I felt was shock and a bit of anger.
"I have for six weeks listened to the songs of these people," he told the crowd, songs that more often than not evoked "sadness and despair".
The poetry of cinematography fully realised, combined with a genuine ability to evoke sadness, fear and guilt, make for one of the most emotionally provocative titles ever.
Set out in erotic tableaus, sewn together in cruelly jammed clusters, shrouded under old blankets and afghans, they evoked sadness and anger in viewers, of an intensity that surprised Kelley, who meant them to register as provocative but emotionally ambiguous.
But a lot of my reaction is simply down to the song and what it evokes: a kind of epic sadness that goes very, very deep.
It evokes the 80s uncannily.
It evokes particular epochs.
To former Yugoslavs it evokes complex emotions.
It evokes emotion through restraint.
