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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