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Example sentences for: evocation

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Main Street sets the tone with its sunny evocation of small-town USA at the turn of the century.
In this sober, incisive, and riveting book, a well-documented history rather than a novelistic evocation of the man himself, Roudinesco cannot conceal her dismay that Lacan was not better behaved, more temperate in his appetites, less baroque in his provocations.
Next day, showing them off to my landlord, I was gently told that the correct word was “damasquinas,” with its exotic evocation of damask and Damascus.
It is no criticism of Solomon's lively and fascinating book that she has not sought to explain how an array of the most ordinary objects--a cordial glass, a bubble pipe, an egg, some glass disks, a map--should release powers of evocation in one another and quiver into an image that overcomes the personal and the biographical to attain universality, profundity, beauty, and truth.
"There's pleasure on every page of this pitch-perfect evocation of a sour, anxious half century" (Malcolm Jones Jr., Newsweek ). Slate's Walter Kirn is virtually alone in finding the book indulgent and vapid.