All 5 Uses of
evoke
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- The sentiment of the opening bars, their languor and supple movement, evoked the incommunicable emotion which had been the cause of all his day's unrest and of his impatient movement of a moment before.†
Chpt 2
- He listened without sympathy to his father's evocation of Cork and of scenes of his youth, a tale broken by sighs or draughts from his pocket flask whenever the image of some dead friend appeared in it or whenever the evoker remembered suddenly the purpose of his actual visit.†
Chpt 2
- A vision of their life, which his father's words had been powerless to evoke, sprang up before him out of the word cut in the desk.†
Chpt 2 *
- A faded world of fervent love and virginal responses seemed to be evoked for his soul by the reading of its pages in which the imagery of the canticles was interwoven with the communicant's prayers.†
Chpt 4
- The rain-laden trees of the avenue evoked in him, as always, memories of the girls and women in the plays of Gerhart Hauptmann; and the memory of their pale sorrows and the fragrance falling from the wet branches mingled in a mood of quiet joy.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(evoke) to call forth or cause -- typically to arouse an emotion or bring a memory to mind