Sentence examples for managing to invoke from inspiring English sources

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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.

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_ 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

(Given the Nazi fascination with Norse myths, the decision to use music by Burzum, a favorite of white supremacists, is unfortunate at best.) In one scene Mr. Stone manages to invoke Werner Herzog; in the next his characters are running around like costumed geeks at a comic-book convention.

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.

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