Both Uses of
evoke
in
A Thousand Acres
- Trying to evoke the romance of it all.†
p. 124.2 *evoke = call forth or cause
- 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.†
p. 262.8evocative = bringing strong feelings or memories to mind
Definition:
to call forth or cause -- typically to arouse an emotion or bring a memory to mind