Definitions
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- v. Present participle of evoke.
Etymologies
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Examples
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An affiliated Germanic word passed into French, which reshaped it into the noun hutte, from which English has a word evoking folktales and their forbidding forest settings replete with magical transformations: hut.
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When I was a boy in the 1950s, psychiatric hospitals were familiarly called “loony bins,” a phrase evoking images of padded cells and straitjackets.
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The exhibition's largest canvases hail from a series called "Today All Circuits Are Closed," a title evoking clogged phone lines or jammed airwaves but depicting something more literal.
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Hospital food -- an infelicitous term evoking gray peas, dry chicken, Jell-O -- is a near oxymoron.
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Instead of addressing an amorphous territory, "America" could have easily been staged under a title evoking agitated or excised histories, episodes of injustice and repression, or strategies of artistic subversion and creative interference.
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Oakland in his visionary classic, Valley of the Moon, a title evoking the pristine situation of
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Dewey concludes the final chapter, and the book, by attributing art's greatest good to its exercise of "imaginative vision," leaning heavily on Shelley in evoking the "unacknowledged" influence of art.
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How does it make you guys feel, and what emotional cues and imagery do you think are specifically successful in evoking this response?
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Albert indicated he and Allen were interested in evoking some of the great long-take scenes in movie history, but wanted this sequence to be their own.
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The art, by Stan Goldberg and Bob Smith, is similarly comfortable in evoking the familiar.
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