conjured

• “The word conjured up images of the Spanish Inquisition, of torture, the whip and the rack.”

  Simon & Schuster: City of Ashes

• “However, I _would_ like to know just what sort of picture the term conjured up in the reader's mind.”

  Despoilers of the Golden Empire

• “The term conjured up in my mind pictures of piles of rope, pulleys and anchors.”

  American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'

• “The term conjured up images I didn’t want to think about.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Glass Rainbow

• “You thought that cyberspace -- a term conjured up long ago by that neuromancer, sci-fi author William Gibson -- was the last frontier of freedom.”

  axisoflogic.com

• “These were the images and ideas conjured from the fervid imaginations of this season's campaign ads, which we've decided to celebrate.”

  The Huffington Post: The Year In Campaign Ads: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly... And Even Worse (VIDEO)

• “Later, the 1926 film "A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ippeiji)," is conjured from the distant history of Japanese silent cinema, with a live score performed by the chamber quintet Ensemble N_JP, featuring shakuhachi master Akikazu Nakamura.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Cinematic Diet Loaded With Preservatives

• “The name conjured up images of plagues, nerve gas and Centers for Disease Control.”

  The Huffington Post: Lee Woodruff: The Origins of The Humble Mascot

• “A staple of romantic fiction, the name conjured up charming highwaymen, dashing blades in plumed hats.”

  Fictionaut: Sick Cycle Carousel

• “The fact that, among interviewees, girls 'xilungu names almost never ranged beyond proper European names to names conjured from the working - or object-world of colonial culture (as men's puberty/adult names did) confirms, I would argue, a gender difference in the function of puberty-naming itself, even as this practice changed with the influence of colonization.”

  Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique

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