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  • The controversial, neomodern glass pyramid designed by Chinese-born American architect I. M. Pei still evoked scorn from traditionalists who felt it destroyed the dignity of the Renaissance courtyard.†   (source)
  • Evoke the forms.†   (source)
  • The magic I evoked fifteen years ago means that Harry has powerful protection while he can still call this house 'home.'†   (source)
  • That great sweeping act of imagination which evoked a marvelous park, where children pressed against the fences, wondering at the extraordinary creatures, come alive from their storybooks.†   (source)
  • For Americans, a word like "camp" evoked happy summer memories that were nothing like what I had experienced in PlaszOw and Gross-Rosen.†   (source)
  • Trying to evoke the romance of it all.†   (source)
  • I tried to drive them out by evoking older memories of Kabati before the war.†   (source)
  • It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world.†   (source)
  • Everything else was sharp and hard, but this Grecian sun evoked joy from every angularity and blurred with brightness the stiff face of the countryside.†   (source)
  • Everyone was settled and the playwright was about to begin her little speech summarizing the plot and evoking the excitement of performing before an adult audience tomorrow evening in the library.†   (source)
  • The sewing kit wrapped in cheesecloth evokes the Byrnes' grim home.†   (source)
  • He could evoke everything for her, with small verbal pulse points of which he was completely unaware.†   (source)
  • Tita enjoyed this step enormously; while the filling was resting, it was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present.†   (source)
  • * The way Canadians select hockey players is a beautiful example of what the sociologist Robert Merton famously called a "self-fulfilling prophecy", a situation where "a false definition, in the beginning … evokes a new behavior which makes the original false conception come true."†   (source)
  • Our hardships evoke more fatigue than fury.†   (source)
  • …threw me an ugly short-circuit, like an electric pop in the temple, more than anything I was struck by the smell—for the plastic, pool-liner odor of masking tape had grown overwhelming from being shut up in such a small space, an emotionally evocative odor I hadn't remembered or thought of in years, a distinct polyvinyl reek that threw me straight back to childhood and my bedroom back in Vegas: chemicals and new carpet, falling asleep and waking up every morning with the painting taped…†   (source)
  • A sweet smell with a bitter undertone, rich and evocative.†   (source)
  • They chose a uniform style, neoclassical, meaning the buildings would have columns and pediments and evoke the glories of ancient Rome.†   (source)
  • The latter parts of the novel are filled with images of birds, feathers, and flying, all of which, while not referring to literal flight, evoke thoughts of metaphorical flight, of escape.†   (source)
  • Betsie by the very way she sat evoked a high-backed chair behind her and a carpet at her feet instead of this endless row of metal cots on a bare pine floor.†   (source)
  • The restaurant chain evoked a series of pleasing images in a youngster's mind: bright colors, a playground, a toy, a clown, a drink with a straw, little pieces of food wrapped up like a present.†   (source)
  • I hollered and evoked my mother's name.†   (source)
  • And every corner, every nook and cranny, evoked ripe memories.†   (source)
  • Like school satchels, they evoke in an instant memories of childhood.†   (source)
  • Mr Cardinal fell silent again and for a moment -perhaps it was to do with his having evoked memories of his late father - he looked extremely melancholy.†   (source)
  • According to his theories, the right object ought to evoke a chain of disturbing associations in her; although so far she's treated his offerings simply at their face value, and all he's got out of her has been a series of cookery methods.†   (source)
  • Sarayu began humming the same evocative tune he'd heard earlier with Papa, and Jesus and Mack simply listened as they worked.†   (source)
  • Under the smoke, that scent fresh, lemony, aromatic evokes a memory of sitting on the train next to him, just like I am now, only we're going the other way and someone is laughing really loudly.†   (source)
  • It was beautifully evocative, beginning with an expectant swell that suddenly pauses early in the first movement, like an infatuated suitor who stops just short of saying too much.†   (source)
  • The incident, of course, gave them the opportunity to evoke many other trivial quarrels from many other dim and turbulent dawns.†   (source)
  • "The evoked potentials are gone," one of them said.†   (source)
  • But despite that it was infinitely better than Seattle: the neat rows of strawberries flowed up and down the valleys, the wind brought the smell of the sea to their nostrils, and in the morning the gray light evoked something of the Japan Hisao and Fujiko had left behind.†   (source)
  • An ordinary person might have felt that her lack of reaction had shifted the blame to her—it might have been another sign that she was so abnormal that even rape could evoke no adequate emotional response.†   (source)
  • She lodges the silver pencil between her fingers and gives it a twirl, vaguely hoping this thing she found on the floor will evoke some kind of memory.†   (source)
  • "A breath of a buffalo in the wintertime"-that exactly evoked his view of life.†   (source)
  • It was an action that rightly evoked praise here and abroad, and I conveyed my appreciation to Mr. de Klerk.†   (source)
  • Thus we would often hum tunes evoking the calm waters of Jordan and the majestic sanctity of Jerusalem.†   (source)
  • Mother evokes warmth and love and sweetness.†   (source)
  • How many times had she stood just this way, the subject and an object too, posed to evoke or to preserve what really did not exist, her true thoughts locked away?†   (source)
  • The small purple blossoms were unobtrusive, but they suffused the air with a warm fragrance that-for Eragon-evoked summers of fresh-picked raspberries and scythed fields turning bronze under the sun.†   (source)
  • Covered with the same wishy-washy flowered material as the spread, the pillows evoke an Arab engineer more than a lord and master of the harem.†   (source)
  • We all face each of the four directions as Neferet evokes the elements and casts Nyx's circle.†   (source)
  • I could only guess at how awful the last seventy-two hours had been for her, and I worried what she would think when she saw that razor-wire fence—it evoked a primal fear.†   (source)
  • It would have been an impressive ceremony, with a bearded priest, clouds of incense, and evocative hymns.†   (source)
  • The ideal model for a new movement is one we evoked earlier: the British drive to end the slave trade at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries.†   (source)
  • Many pendulum rides take the form of large boats, and it's probably no coincidence that a number of people find this ride evokes in them the same sense of seasickness that a real boat produces.†   (source)
  • She did not even try to evoke the woods where she had shared the joy of love.†   (source)
  • Even the bald-headed girl in Sicily still evoked in him strong sensations of pity, tenderness and regret.†   (source)
  • Finally, Yue-qing Yang's evocative documentary, Nu-shu: A Hidden Language of Women in China, helped me to understand that many women in Jiangyong County are still living with the fallout of arranged, loveless marriages.†   (source)
  • The rules are clear: it was a passionate, evocative poem, maybe even brilliant, but not the assignment.†   (source)
  • Looking at the Map of Days, even the places that sounded most forbidding evoked in me a strange longing.†   (source)
  • The only word that evoked in her a sweet, nostalgic memory of her homeland was the word cemetery.†   (source)
  • How unfair of Matron to evoke that soaring chorale which always made me feel that I stood with every mortal creature looking up to the heavens in dumb wonder.†   (source)
  • Lanier had objected to the photos because they might evoke sympathy for Seth.†   (source)
  • It was the sluggards and skulkers, the tavern patriots and windy politicians, who evoked a wrath he could not contain.†   (source)
  • I would not have written it at all if my momma had said no. I asked if I should, and I warned her that for every smile it evoked it would bring an equal number of tears.†   (source)
  • Bourne hung up the phone and returned to the couch and the printouts, separating three that had caught his attention, not that any of them contained anything that evoked the Jackal.†   (source)
  • What can man make, after all, that evokes the Divine as a place such as this?†   (source)
  • The streets had names meant to evoke feelings of peace and tranquillity, and Joe recognized them as the service roads through the cemetery.†   (source)
  • Lord Hewett's castle was small but strong, with thick walls and studded oaken gates that evoked his House's ancient arms, an oak escutcheon studded with iron upon a field of undy blue and white.†   (source)
  • I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language -- the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.†   (source)
  • Undead evoked ghouls and wights and revenants—creatures with rotting flesh and spectral eyes and a ravenous hatred of the living.†   (source)
  • In Kirundi, ganza means "to reign," and the name evoked the kings that once ruled Burundi.†   (source)
  • But they are her own words, chosen specifically to evoke heartfelt emotion.†   (source)
  • It may have had words to it at one point because every time I hear it, it evokes a sunset over the ocean, an ancient castle, and a beautiful princess who throws herself off the castle walls into the pounding surf below.†   (source)
  • As he looked at the crowd, people saw in his face what the threats of the judges had not been able to evoke: the first sign of emotion.†   (source)
  • And, in the same way, to use words that are more correct, more precise, more correctly evocative of what you're trying to say.†   (source)
  • The Tradd—St. Croix house evoked a mythic, possessive nostalgia from the reverent crowds who walked single file through its hushed, candle-lit interior each April during the annual spring tour of homes, for it was emblematic of the most remarkable instincts of that form-possessed society.†   (source)
  • I Slip Off My Shoes Slide down the hall in my stocking feet, evoking a memory of Raeanne and me when we were little, playing champion ice-skaters.†   (source)
  • Belatedly she remembered the umbrella in her bag, dragged it out, pushing her way forward into the evocative gloom of the rain-struck woods.†   (source)
  • I WANT TO do that very thing now, of course, slow at each door and awning and window case and flip down the passenger-side window of my old and lumbering gray Mercedes coupe and perhaps not so softly call out my general gratitude for the collegial thoughts and kindnesses, but it's the selling hour, after all, and what would I be doing but disturbing the bustling morning of the town's activity by showing myself in an odd one-man parade that evokes no one's great nostalgia or longing.†   (source)
  • Even in the 1860s such phrases in a Fourth of July speech or at a recruiting rally might evoke a cynical guffaw.†   (source)
  • The mumbling old voice evoked the clank of chains, the horror of thirst, the black smell of death, below deck in the hold of a slave ship.†   (source)
  • This evoked quite a bit of guffawing by all but Eric, who glared and said, "Would I dirty my sword with these… these gamesters?†   (source)
  • Next day this evoked a headling: LOONIES THREATEN TO THROW RICE.†   (source)
  • I indulged myself with the old-time stories because they evoked a feeling of comfort I remembered from my childhood at Laguna.†   (source)
  • The ghost might hear her too; she did not know whether her voice would evoke it or disperse it.†   (source)
  • I could not shake the almost desperate sadness all this evoked, and I marveled that sounds could so degrade the spirit.†   (source)
  • Jan would never have believed that anything so simple or so commonplace could have evoked such yearning in his heart.†   (source)
  • She had gazed out the window at the wintry Warsaw desolation, bomb-shattered buildings and rubble heaps shrouded (there was no other word) by the sulphurous soot-blackened snow—a landscape which had once brought tears of sorrow but now only evoked a sickish apathy, so much a dingy part did it seem of the day-to-day dreariness and misery of a city ransacked, fearful, hungry, dying.†   (source)
  • Now the whole assembly—some of it still in the future—fell, by stages, into place in one location already evoked, which I saw now was a focusing point for all the stories.†   (source)
  • They found that it drew like chalk on a blackboard; and soon the lakeside rocks were covered with drawings: crude but evocative drawings: drawings that would have been a psychologist's delight.†   (source)
  • As I was growing up, my mother loved to tell me about the happiness of her childhood days, and I loved to listen, for I knew only the ruined and colorless landscape of the Depression, and her talk evoked beautiful pictures of a world that was bright and sunny.†   (source)
  • Things scarcely named in the lines evoked concrete images.†   (source)
  • Now the landlord can wring from us his moneys and care not for the misery he evokes, for indeed it would be difficult for any man to see another starve and his wife and children as well; or to enjoy the profits born of such travail.†   (source)
  • Music was played on some inner ear, and Spender imagined the shape of such instruments to evoke such music.†   (source)
  • Find the least dangerous situation that can evoke some spontaneity in you.†   (source)
  • This was, according to her, the reason for his haste and constant blundering as he evoked the past.†   (source)
  • Once it had had the power to evoke fear.†   (source)
  • Would the magic of the herbs, the spirit evoked, seep into the sores and bring the feet back to me?†   (source)
  • A smell can suddenly evoke a long-forgotten moment.†   (source)
  • However, that episode evoked a great deal of anxiety in me.†   (source)
  • My scent must be as evocative to them as theirs is to me.†   (source)
  • The evoked potential had died—just the way an EKG goes flat when the heart stops beating.†   (source)
  • Who had taught him to play upon the criminal mind, provoking and evoking a reluctant commitment?†   (source)
  • I could feel the coolness of the sea when I evoked water.†   (source)
  • He cocked his head again in that curious, evocative gesture.†   (source)
  • You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that.†   (source)
  • Genet could have come home on weekends, but she said Missing evoked painful memories.†   (source)
  • The sounds evoked memories of long ago, of screeching jungle noises woven into a single tone.†   (source)
  • And instinct had evoked the city of Paris.†   (source)
  • For something had; a book of matches had evoked an image of reality.†   (source)
  • Words and looks had passed between them, quiet laughter evoked, comfort established.†   (source)
  • She gasped, suddenly paralyzed, unable to breathe, the man beside her evoking a memory of terror.†   (source)
  • His voice was plaintive, immensely evocative, and profoundly sad.†   (source)
  • The covert glances and quiet murmurs I usually evoke are nothing compared to the reaction brought on by the sight of my bizarre-looking prep team.†   (source)
  • The food she makes, familiar to me from Ireland, evokes a flood of memories: sausages roasting with potatoes in the oven, the tea leaves in Gram's morning cuppa, laundry flapping on the line behind her house, the faint clang of the church bell in the distance.†   (source)
  • There were hints of much worse things around us now like a faint odor in the air, evoked by words like "plasma" and "psycho" and "sulfa," strange words like that with endings like Latin nouns.†   (source)
  • Indeed, I recall that shortly after Miss Kenton's departure to Cornwall in 1936, myself never having been to that part of the country, I would often glance through Volume III of Mrs Symons' work, the volume which describes to readers the delights of Devon and Cornwall, complete with photographs and - to my mind even more evocative - a variety of artists' sketches of that region.†   (source)
  • Soon this illusion had me standing below the window, then circling, quietly, around to the back window of that room, where I saw what I had been looking for, Jess Clark, his back and the back of his head, in a white shirt, the slope of his shoulders and the angle of his neck as evocative and promising as anything I had ever seen.†   (source)
  • The resulting hole evoked a giant grave and exuded the same musty chill, but this was not unwelcome for it provided workers with relief from the intensifying summer heat.†   (source)
  • To have played the opening measures of that piece with feelings so perfectly evocative of heartache, one can only assume that you have drawn on some wellspring of sorrow within yourself.†   (source)
  • Competing with a wailing baby at the back of the room, I tried to evoke that hot summer of 1935, when the cousins came down from the north.†   (source)
  • Other memories were simply fragments, pieces here and there of growing up, and few, if any, evoked any feeling.†   (source)
  • In this she was successful; when the candle she chewed made contact with the torrid images she evoked, the candle began to burn.†   (source)
  • Prim makes a sound--such a lost, irretrievable sound--that I can't even imagine what they have done to evoke it.†   (source)
  • Even Eiffel's tower, forecast by wishful Americans to be a monstrosity that would disfigure forever the comely landscape of Paris, turned out to possess unexpected élan, with a sweeping base and tapered shaft that evoked the trail of a skyrocket.†   (source)
  • After the trumpets sounded their first martial notes, the strings swelled, and then his countryman began to play, evoking for the American audience the movement of a wolf through the birches, the wind across the steppe, the flicker of a candle in a ballroom, and the flash of a cannon at Borodino.†   (source)
  • Black-and-white postcards from Plauen before the Great War show lovely Art Nouveau and Neo-Romantic buildings that evoke the streets of Paris, elegant cafés and parks, electric streetcars, zeppelins in the air.†   (source)
  • This touched upon something basic, something tribal, and evoked tension and a sort of suppressed fear.†   (source)
  • And she was glad, because she preferred to evoke her dead lover as he had asked her to the night before, when he stopped writing the letter he had already begun and looked at her for the last time.†   (source)
  • There were tragedies too, against which their own troubles faded to nothing: stillborn babies, mothers who died, young men weeping in the corridors, dazed mothers in their teens discarded by their families, infant deformities that evoked shame and love in confusing measure.†   (source)
  • The fast food joints along the Strip seem insignificant compared to the new monuments towering over them: recreations of the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty, and the Sphinx, enormous buildings that evoke Venice, Paris, New York, Tuscany, medieval England, ancient Egypt and Rome, the Middle East, the South Seas.†   (source)
  • …to as the present, a photograph or an earring or a particular shawl worn on a particular occasion, and Nadia encountered each day objects that took her into Saeed's past, a book or a music collection or a sticker on the inside of a drawer, and evoked emotions from her own childhood, and jagged musings on the fate of her parents and her sister, and Saeed, for his part, was inhabiting a chamber that had been his only briefly, years ago, when relatives from afar or abroad used to come to…†   (source)
  • Typewriters—the women who operated the latest business machines—streamed from the Rookery, the Montauk, and other skyscrapers wearing under their coats the customary white blouse and long black skirt that so evoked the keys of their Remingtons.†   (source)
  • The anesthesiologists checked their evoked potential monitors, which showed the electrical activity coming from the brain.†   (source)
  • He was certain she would recognize his handwriting, and that then she would evoke the afternoons of embroidery under the almond trees in the little park, the scent of faded gardenias in his letters, the private Waltz of the Crowned Goddess at windblown daybreak.†   (source)
  • Kept awake by the gunfire whizzing over the roofs, she continued to evoke her husband's excellent qualities until daybreak, not reproaching him for any disloyalty other than his having died without her, which was mitigated by her conviction that he had never belonged to her as much as he did now that he was in the coffin nailed shut with a dozen three-inch nails and two meters under the ground.†   (source)
  • Even more than the fighter planes and the tanks these robots, few though they were, and the drones overhead, were frightening, because they suggested an unstoppable efficiency, an inhuman power, and evoked the kind of dread that a small mammal feels before a predator of an altogether different order, like a rodent before a snake.†   (source)
  • The powerful feelings evoked by cattlemen reflect opposing views of our national identity, attempts to sustain old myths or create new ones.†   (source)
  • That is why he evoked with such great nostalgia the old trolley with its emaciated mules covered with sores, in which a sideways glance was all one needed to know where love was.†   (source)
  • …the innate power of distancing one from one's physical surroundings, which accounted for part of it, but Saeed and Nadia no longer touched each other when they lay in bed, not in that way, and not because their curtained-off space in the pavilion seemed less than entirely private, or not only because of that, and when they did speak at length, they, a pair once not used to arguing, tended to argue, as though their nerves were so raw that extended encounters evoked a sensation of pain.†   (source)
  • That treasure lying in its bed of coral, and the corpse of the commander floating sideways on the bridge, were evoked by historians as an emblem of the city drowned in memories.†   (source)
  • She evoked him as she evoked the day she had sent her first telegram, and she could never erase from her heart the memory of the sad little bird condemned to oblivion.†   (source)
  • Fermina Daza could not help it: all that seemed like children's games to her, most of all when Florentino Ariza insisted on evoking the afternoons of melancholy verses in the Park of the Evangels, the letters hidden along her route to school, the embroidery lessons under the almond trees.†   (source)
  • The lighthouse was always a blessed refuge in a storm, which he evoked with nostalgia in the dawn of his old age when he had everything settled, because it was a good place to be happy, above all at night, and he thought that something of his loves from that time flashed out to the sailors with every turn of the light.†   (source)
  • He was not the pitiable phantom who had haunted her in the Park of the Evangels and whom she had evoked with a certain tenderness after she had grown old, but the hateful phantom with his executioner's frock coat and his hat held against his chest, whose thoughtless impertinence had disturbed her so much that she found it impossible not to think about him.†   (source)
  • Perhaps once he could evoke gales of laughter with a quip, but the sea had taken that power from him, along with half his wits and all his memory.†   (source)
  • And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of those smiles and to reflect upon the good will which provoked them for it had power to protect and to confer honor and to strengthen resolve and it had power to heal men and to bring them to safety long after all other resources were exhausted.†   (source)
  • It was an evocative gesture.†   (source)
  • Turning the pages, Marie read quickly, scanning down the columns looking for a name that would evoke a face.†   (source)
  • A mother's heart cannot bear such loss, especially in the face of my increased (and failed) efforts to evoke some manner of speech from my daughter, who remains in her nearly comatose state.†   (source)
  • While its appalling size and pale, squidlike coloration had the power to shock, it was the monster's movements that evoked true horror.†   (source)
  • It would be new but familiar; appreciative but filled with longing; and its very inspiration would evoke the same feelings in her.†   (source)
  • Smoking seemed to evoke a particular kind of childhood memory — vivid, precise, emotionally charged.†   (source)
  • As the huge ships passed upstream, American militia stood gawking onshore, which evoked an angry general order from Washington declaring such "unsoldierly conduct" could only give the enemy a low opinion of the American army.†   (source)
  • No pain Theon had ever known came close to the agony that Skinner could evoke with a little flensMg blade.†   (source)
  • She had evoked the town idealized by nostalgia with such strong tenacity that Gaston understood that she would not get married unless he took her to live in Macondo.†   (source)
  • It was a flawed, imperfect picture, but it possessed such intensity and passion that it evoked a visceral response from Eragon.†   (source)
  • It made her sad, because he spoke of photography as he had spoken once of medicine, of their marriage, a language and tone that evoked the lost past and filled her with longing.†   (source)
  • In any group of three, his person became indistinguishable, and when seen alone it seemed to evoke a group of its own, composed of the countless persons he resembled.†   (source)
  • Fay Pollan evoked less sympathy than anyone else in the room, maybe with the exception of Frank Doley.†   (source)
  • Then she told them of her own first vain effort at running away, evoking the memory of that miserable life she had led as a child, reliving it for a moment in the telling.†   (source)
  • In Franz the word light did not evoke the picture of a landscape basking in the soft glow of day; it evoked the source of light itself: the sun, a light bulb, a spotlight.†   (source)
  • I've heard words and names that evoke certain unpleasant memories for me, at any rate, and I think it behooves me to ask a question or two-specifically one.†   (source)
  • Ryman Frey's great rectangular pavilion was the largest in the camp; its grey canvas walls were made of sewn squares to resemble stonework, and its two peaks evoked the Twins.†   (source)
  • If the emperor was a weak man, the sight of his mark would evoke laughter and contempt, but if he was a stern and powerful ruler, his mark would instill fear and trembling and obedience.†   (source)
  • He enjoyed listening to Nately, whose maudlin, bittersweet lamentations mirrored much of his own romantic desolation and never failed to evoke in him resurgent tides of longing for his wife and children.†   (source)
  • Vanessa's arrival in B Dorm evoked some eye-rolling from Miss Natalie, but she was more tolerant than her friend Ginger Solomon, who demanded,"Is that what you want to see in the bathroom, Miss Piper?†   (source)
  • Slowly the face belonging to that name came into focus — very slowly, for the man aroused hatred in David that was no less acute for the sadness he also evoked.†   (source)
  • Every High Priestess has a poet who recites ancient verse to evoke the presence of the Muse as she enters into her rituals.†   (source)
  • …splendid Windsor Hotel, with its still splendid high-ceilinged saloon and its atmosphere of spittoons and potted palms, endures amid the variety stores and supermarkets as a Main Street landmark-one comparatively un-patronized, for the Windsor's dark, huge chambers and echoing hallways, evocative as they are, cannot compete with the air-conditioned amenities offered at the trim little Hotel Warren, or with the Wheat Lands Motel's individual television sets and "Heated Swimming Pool."†   (source)
  • Inside, he saw maidservants dusting and cleaning rooms whose rich appointments evoked a tranquil estate rather than some secret smuggler's den.†   (source)
  • He was tired of fighting off the dreams and the voices; he was tired of guarding himself against places and things which evoked the memories.†   (source)
  • The banana company's city, which Patricia Brown may have tried to evoke for her grandchildren during the nights of intolerance and dill pickles in Prattville, Alabama, was a plain of wild grass.†   (source)
  • Leyden was the cleanest city she had ever seen in her life; and if Braintree in Essex had failed to evoke feelings of ancestral ties, the church of the Pilgrims at Leyden more than made up for it.†   (source)
  • Though I had pictured how I wanted it to look—and even described my ideas to Jane—being inside the house evoked memories that made changing its appearance seem impossible.†   (source)
  • The shafts of light that played down on the exquisite apparently translucent marble evoked an ethereal effect that isolated the gigantic sitting figure from the velvet tapestry behind it and the outer darkness around.†   (source)
  • The chant's hiccuping syncopation evoked for Ghosh the sound of women sweeping the front yard around the banyan tree in the early mornings in Madras and the dhobi ringing his bicycle bell.†   (source)
  • Instead, a seemingly natural arrangement of open grasslands, winding paths, clumps and groves of trees, in combination with an abundant presence of water in the form of serpentine lakes, streams, and artificial cataracts, was intended to evoke the look of an idealized English landscape.†   (source)
  • It pained her not to have had that revelation many years before when it had still been possible to purify memories and reconstruct the universe under a new light and evoke without trembling Pietro Crespi's smell of lavender at dusk and rescue Rebeca from her slough of misery, not out of hatred or out of love but because of the measureless understanding of solitude.†   (source)
  • From what I'd read in the old ritual book, eucalyptus was associated with healing, protection, and purification—three things I thought were important to evoke during my first ritual as leader of the Dark Daughters.†   (source)
  • The measured, labored, evocative scrape of iron shovel against concrete made his flesh crawl with terror as he stepped from the curb to cross the ominous alley and hurried onward until the haunting, incongruous noise had been left behind.†   (source)
  • The engine had never failed to start, but in the past few weeks Jake had noticed a delay, an extra turn or two that evoked an ominous warning that something bad was about to happen.†   (source)
  • Hers was unusually prominent, evoking the long digestive tract that ended there with a slight protrusion.†   (source)
  • The odor of the marsh was so urgent and strong, so evocative of the Atlantic and infinite fertility, that the breeze that lifted the sheets from my body smelled of trout and shad and mullet and flowed in a secret renegade creek through our room.†   (source)
  • The recording evoked a powerful flood of memories; Scott McDaniels had often listened to this very album whenever he sat at the dining room table to do his taxes.†   (source)
  • Lying awake at night, stretched out on his back in a hammock in the same room where he had awaited death, he would evoke the image of lawyers dressed in black leaving the presidential palace in the icy cold of early morning with their coat collars turned up about their ears, rubbing their hands, whispering, taking refuge in dreary early-morning cafes to speculate over what the president had meant when he said yes, or what he had meant when he said no, and even to imagine what the…†   (source)
  • He recalled the enormous inner space of the Old Church in Amsterdam and felt the strange incomprehensible ecstasy that void had evoked in him.†   (source)
  • Adams had chosen to say nothing of any of his own attainments, but rather to place himself as part of a continuum, and to evoke those qualities of character that he had been raised on and that he had strived for so long to uphold.†   (source)
  • In her letters to Mary Cranch, Abigail was more inclined to share the details of her life and her innermost feelings, while with sister Elizabeth—and perhaps because the Reverend Shaw, too, would be reading what she wrote—she was often moved to evoke the creed they had been raised on in the Weymouth parsonage.†   (source)
  • In Franz the word light did not evoke the picture of a landscape basking in the soft glow of day; it evoked the source of light itself: the sun, a light bulb, a spotlight.†   (source)
  • If each of them were asked to say what the name of his native country evoked in him, the images that came to mind would be so different as to rule out all possibility of unity.†   (source)
  • Adams evoked instead "prospects of abundance," "the return of health, industry, and trade, to those cities which have lately been afflicted with disease."†   (source)
  • The feeling Soviet kitsch evoked in Sabina strikes me as very much like the horror Tereza experienced in her dream of being marched around a swimming pool with a group of naked women and forced to sing cheerful songs with them while corpses floated just below the surface of the pool.†   (source)
  • The row of houses evoked another image, a very strong image of another row of flats, similar in outlines, but oddly different.†   (source)
  • But then he recovered himself, and with appealing self-deprecation evoked a favorite image from Aesop: " 'What dust we raise,' said the fly upon the chariot wheel.†   (source)
  • The day after, a Sunday, inspired by a sermon he had heard—and also, it would seem, by a feeling of relief that his decision not to become a minister was at last resolved—he wrote of the "glorious shows" of nature and the intense sensation of pleasure they evoked.†   (source)
  • There was another known relay at Les Classiques, a gray-haired switchboard operator named Philippe d'Anjou, whose face evoked images of violence and darkness, and shattering flashes of light and sound.†   (source)
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