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evocation - use in sentences
Preposition: of
- childhood: The river runs steadily through this vivid evocation of a childhood in India at the time of the First World War.
- era: The two Jonathans, Bedford and Baker have created this extraordinary evocation of the Victorian era behind a 1930's red brick exterior.
- atmosphere: There have been few such vivid evocations of the electric atmosphere of the revolutionary Left in Germany in those months.
- landscape: In Comus, against a perfect evocation of English landscape he gave the Rout disturbingly beautiful animal masks of great individuality.
- life: Originally a play for voices, it's a poetic evocation of the lives of the inhabitants.
- place: Other tunes were simply evocations of places we visited, or other characters or events along the way.
Converse of object
- create: Here, acoustic guitar and bass, brushes and sparse piano create a melancholy evocation of memories of lost times and old friends.
- move: The second, a moving evocation of the folly of war gives the book its title.
- offer: Seeds of Peace offered a compelling evocation of the pain and futility of war.
- produce: Each individual used their own script, photographs and sound track to produce a powerful evocation of their own story.
- provide: The book provides a brilliant, lasting evocation of one of Britain's best-loved poets.
- have: On a gruesome theme we have the deliberate ceremonial evocation of deific or devilish forms.
Adjective modifier
- vivid: The river runs steadily through this vivid evocation of a childhood in India at the time of the First World War.
- poetic: The synonyms are often poetic, evocations of the many spirits resident within a single word.
- atmospheric: His first published poems were praised for their atmospheric evocation of working class life.
- brilliant: The title poem is a brilliant evocation of the loneliness of abandonment.
- powerful: Gary's poem is a powerful evocation of the cleansing of the spirit that is possible in the recovery from madness.
- wonderful: Wonderful evocations of Latin America from the founder of ' Magical Realism ' .
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