11 example sentences using evocation.
Evocation used in a sentence
Evocation in a sentence as a noun
How in the **** would you quantify the evocation of a concept?
The literary evocation is far more powerful than the word-part "soy".
Dick's evocation of compassion for animals in that novel was quite compelling.
His work is half an evocation of his family's life in a small early 20th-century Polish city, and half cosmic and out-there.
I thought he was was drawing a distinction between literal communication and evocation of experience and feeling.
You can cry, but not on Television for god's sakes; it's not the 'crying' that's weak, it's the evocation of sympathy or empathy from others, a form of emotional grovelling that's the issue.
I assume the image of the micro-vial balanced on a fingertip is meant to illustrate how small the quantity of blood is, but, at least for me, the initial evocation is of drawing blood from beneath the fingernail.
For example I read recently 'The French Lieutenant's Woman', I doubt its richness of detail, and evocation of place and time, etc can ever be captured in a film or even a miniseries, and on top of it is choc-full of tid-bits of information.
Trump's evocation of authoritarian imagery has been uncorrelated with genuine threats of increased authoritarianism in USA.
The point at which an HN thread includes a direct evocation of "Islamic Sharia law", as if that string of tokens was by itself sufficient to inform the general HN reader of the context of any issue, is the point at which we can probably include the whole thread wasn't well suited to HN.
Music is primarily for entertainment and evocation of emotion, as well as secondarily for dance, exercise, distraction, community building... All of these require a vibration of the eardrums, and such is my temperament that I love to have fun and stay light-hearted, so most of my music fits the tickling vibe.
Evocation definitions
imaginative re-creation
calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations
See also: summoning
stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors; "the elicitation of his testimony was not easy"
See also: induction elicitation