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If not, why is his name being evoked? It's great that you agree with him, but OP is saying that at least in his case, this point of view was not honored.

Because the feeling the demo evoked for me was: "Uh oh. This looks like a micro-managers wet dream".

It evoked in me a very strong sense of empathy for the victim. In case it's not clear to you who the victim is in this case, recommend you find that post and read it.

Reading this piece by one of my childhood mentors very much evoked a feeling of vindication.

That's not the most interesting thought evoked by this story though. How many of you that are outraged by this leave location services enabled on your smartphone 24/7?

You may not believe me, but the feeling evoked by using those tools is not "mad with power" so much as "is this really what I want to be doing with my life". It's not a dictatorial thing, it's a janitorial thing.

This review evoked a positive emotional response where most companies' "Year in Review" posts evoke a staid statistical response.

Feynman once said something about how equations evoked animations in his mind. This is the value of things like Lisp, Python, Ruby, Smalltalk, Light Table -- by interacting with systems in a tight feedback loop, you can start to form pictures and understandings in your mind.

Android didn't do it all by themselves; Verizon put together commercials that evoked emotional responses that brought in the people who wanted the phone that was a robot.

What was evoked seems to have been the idea of how unlikely it would be that a computer could read the pseudo code and determine that it found the most frequent words on a page without being given the answer ahead of time.

For decades until, arguably, the arrival of nighttime soaps in the 1970s and '80s the most celebrated figures on the small screen evoked not glamour but ordinariness. They acted out comic and dramatic versions of our own dilemmas, or they filled history with life-sized personalities rather than the bigger-than-life stars of film.

Your conclusion that the author wants China to remain where it is show a lack of comprehension for both the content of the article as well as the pathos meant to be evoked. Here is what he wrote in his conclusion: >>There are tens, maybe hundreds, of thousands of mainland Chinese who follow such people too, and there must be countless more like them in person, trying in their small way to make China a better place.