Sentence examples for managed to invoke from inspiring English sources

She managed to invoke some sympathy for the vicious school-master's wife, but her performance was to be her last as star of a major film.

In an opening statement that never mentioned the Enron Corporation, Mr. Coffey nevertheless managed to invoke echoes of the charges of obstruction of justice that Andersen will face in a federal trial that begins next week in Houston.

"Everyone has their own 'Sound of Music' memory, and that's what I'm interested in," said Mr. Elkins, who in the course of an hourlong chat managed to invoke Baudrillard, Shakespeare, the Ballets Russes, Cindy Sherman, Willy Ninja, Paul Taylor, Busby Berkeley, Gene Kelly and D. W. Winnicott in relation to the musical.

In their drawing for the ICI Trade Pavilion in Stoneleigh, England (1983), Christopher Macdonald and Peter Salter have managed to invoke the labor of the ox, depicted in the drawing's lower left-hand corner, with layers of erasure, collage and scraping – a way to remove technical pen – that have worn the surface of the vellum.

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".

_ I'm fascinated by the way you manage to invoke the infamous Jersey turnpike with ecumenical language.

SCORECARD -- The ad manages to invoke the attack on the World Trade Center without depicting it or even mentioning it.

Along the way, she manages to invoke both the non-causal entanglements of quantum physics and the paranoid conspiracies of Pynchon and DeLillo.

"I love you," she says, and with a startling glimmer of clarity Dench manages to invoke the blessing and heartbreak of a lifetime of connection.

The director — portrayed in the local media as a saint who cared nothing for herself — cursed Whitney with admirable creativity, managing to invoke her mother, skin tone and even the contours of her rear end, which did run to flatness.

Sophie Kinsella's "Twenties Girl" manages to invoke two giddy young heroines, one contemporary and one a ghost from the 1920s, with more emphasis on excitable punctuation than on gravitas.