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Cutting for Stone
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- BUT JUST AT THE MOMENT she was thinking these thoughts, anticipating her arrival in Addis Ababa ....she found herself suddenly invoking Lord Shiva's name: the plane, the DC-3, the trustworthy camel of the frontier sky, was shuddering as if mortally wounded.†
Part 1invoking = calling upon
- She invoked Lord Shiva's name, held her breath, and cut above each clamp, bracing herself for something terrible.
Part 1 *invoked = called upon
- She lifted Sister Mary Joseph Praise's left breast, hesitated for a moment, invoked God's name again, then plunged the needle between the ribs and into the heart.†
Part 1
- Hemlatha ran over at this summons, saying "Shiva, Shiva," invoking the name of her personal deity, the God whom others thought of as the Destroyer, but who she believed was also the Transformer, the one who could make something good come out of something terrible.†
Part 1invoking = calling upon
- "And Shiva, for Shiva," she said, naming the child with the circular hole in his scalp, the last to breathe, the child she had labored over, a child all but dead until she had invoked Lord Shiva's name, at which point he took his first gasp.†
Part 1invoked = called upon
- Only this time, he was the patient, and it was my heuristic I would invoke.†
Part 3invoke = call upon
- I knew enough Arabic to understand that he'd just invoked a gynecological term that made reference to my mother.†
Part 4invoked = called upon
- Don't invoke the superorganism.†
Part 4invoke = call upon
- Screw your courage to the sticking place," I said aloud, invoking Ghosh, who never got to see what I was seeing, never heard the superorganism.†
Part 4invoking = calling upon
- If that's not the explanation, then I must invoke a disinterested God who leaves us to our own devices, neither causing nor preventing tornadoes or pestilence, but a God who will now and then stick his thumb on the spinning wheel so that a father who put a continent between himself and his sons should find himself in the same room as one of them.†
Part 4invoke = call upon
Definitions:
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(1)
(invoke) to call uponThe exact meaning of invoke can depend upon its context. For example:
- "invoking God's help"; or "invoking the spirit of the dead" -- to call upon a great or magical power
- "I invoke the First Amendment"; or "I invoke the words of Thomas Jefferson" -- to cite or call upon for validation
- "She invoked his sympathy and family memories." -- to call upon someone's feelings or memories
- "She invoked his assistance." -- to call earnestly for
- "The program invokes the subroutine" -- to call up a computer program
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)