All 9 Uses of
evoke
in
Black Boy
- Their faces possessed the power of evoking in me a million memories that I longed to forget, and instead of my leaving drawing me to them in communion, it had flung me forever beyond them.†
Chpt 1.2 *evoking = calling forth or causing
- I felt no qualms about my first lust for the flesh being born on holy ground; the contrast betweenbudding carnal desires and the aching loneliness of the hymns never evoked any sense of guilt in me.†
Chpt 1.4evoked = called forth or caused
- Suddenly the dispute evoked an idea in me and, forgetting that I had no right to speak without permission, I piped up and had my say.†
Chpt 1.5
- It was incredible that what I did or the way I lived could evoke tears from anyone.†
Chpt 1.11evoke = call forth or cause
- And her words evoked in me a pity for her that had no name.†
Chpt 1.12evoked = called forth or caused
- But pride would make him hide his self-hate, for he would not want whites to know that he was so thoroughly conquered by them that his total life was conditioned by their attitude; but in the act of hiding his self-hate, he could not help but hate those who evoked his self-hate in him.†
Chpt 2.15
- Slowly I began to forge in the depths of my mind a mechanism that repressed all the dreams and desires that the Chicago streets, the newspapers, the movies were evoking in me†
Chpt 2.15evoking = calling forth or causing
- The loss of my job did not evoke in me any hostility toward the system of rules that had barred my first grasp at the material foundations of American life.†
Chpt 2.15evoke = call forth or cause
- I gave no credence to the ideology of Garveyism; it was, rather, the emotional dynamics of its adherents that evoked my admiration.†
Chpt 2.16evoked = called forth or caused
Definition:
to call forth or cause -- typically to arouse an emotion or bring a memory to mind