Example sentences for: evocation

How can you use “evocation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • On the upside, John Leguizamo's performance as a philandering hairdresser is "raging, startlingly visceral" (Maslin, the New York Times ), and Lee's evocation of the tension that gripped the city--the blackouts, looting, and violence--is enthralling.

  • This was not a call for action, however, but a nostalgic evocation of the Italian anti-Americanism of the past.

  • 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.

  • The generic answer is A Time To Be Born (1942)--a dazzling and unsettling evocation of New York City on the verge of World War II, which grabs and holds from Paragraph 1. Still, in many ways, I think Turn, Magic Wheel (1936) is even more perfect--a fleet-footed satire of literary life and celebrity authors (namely Ernest H.), and one of Powell's few "modernist" books.

  • His evocation of Hong Kong is "full of sharp observations--on subjects ranging from politics to food to sex to servitude" (Dwight Garner, Newsday ). But his protagonist, a misanthropic businessman named Neville "Bunt" Mullard, is deemed poorly drawn.


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