If there's a slight reservation with Porter, it's those rather too self-conscious invocations of a golden age.
Later, during a political moment much like this one, when American politics was animated by self-serving invocations of the founders, her house was demolished to make room for a memorial to Paul Revere.
There's also enough queasily self-conscious invocation of the generic - "He was a walking cliché", "a couple of caricature Wall Street brokers, loudly discussing hedge funds", "The Police Station... looked just as it would have in the movies" - to suggest the enterprise may think of itself as entirely tongue-in-cheek.
The documents that result from those high-end studies lean toward self-congratulatory invocations of science's role in advancing human welfare.
Justly or not, it's her glamorously tormented self-portraits, not his invocations of the working masses, that have earned a place in pop culture.
By challenging the centrality of colonial and legal registers in modern South Asian historiography, he seeks to locate the "Hindu self" along multiple vernacular invocations, religious traditions, and cultural formations.
This is not just a self-portrait but perhaps an invocation of sinister forces from beyond.
It seemed wise to follow McCain: Myth of a Maverick author Matt Welch in concluding that the GOP nominee's self help movement inspired frequent invocations of a "cause greater than oneself" was his one organizing principle.
It was Mao's nasty inspiration that for a revolution truly to succeed it must never stop, and our own culture's version of non-stop revolution is collected and distilled in pop sex books: a ceaseless propaganda of self-congratulation wedded to a ceaseless invocation of the still powerful Enemy..
Lynda Hart, one of the authors of Acting Out: Feminist Performances, felt that the video "alternated between two competing representations of Madonna... Charging coercion, both sides make the video as an invitation to a certain way of life, in the process denying it the stylistic invocation of a rhetoric of self-authorization".
