Example sentences for: evocation

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

  • Andre Schwartz-Bart's The Last of the Just (for example) is a far more moving evocation of the Holocaust than any account in any reference work, because it focuses on the experiences of one man--a man who, if he continues to deny his Jewishness, has a reasonable chance of escaping the death camps.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • It is an odd piece of reportage, with no interest in the evocation of place.

  • 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.


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