How to Use evocation in a Sentence

evocation

noun

• These mini-lectures are often comically connected to evocations of where Kaag finds and reads each person’s book.
  — Mark Greif, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2016
• Because of the evocation of the state secrets privilege, Walker had ruled the lawyers must make their case without the classified document.
  — David Kravets, WIRED, 31 Mar. 2010
• The first section of the text, the Ars Goetia, contains the descriptions of the evocations for each of the 72 demons.
  — Madeleine Aggeler, The Cut, 15 June 2018
• The pain and confusion is all there; the place of peace, quiet and open air still in need of evocation.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 13 Mar. 2022
• For all the fond evocation of time and place, kitsch and culture, this is a movie about dread — about the demons in the hills sharpening their knives.
  — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2019
• Richard Linklater's fond evocation of the last day of school in a small Texas town is one of the greatest high school movies ever.
  — Jim Kiest, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Mar. 2022
• In fact, the evocation of that event comes at roughly a halfway point in the museum.
  — New York Times, 3 June 2021
• And feel the tremendous power of Ferrante’s evocation of a bygone era in Italy?
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 18 Nov. 2018
• There’s also a faint evocation of a prepubescent Bond movie, with the villain holed up in the sort of icy lair common to 007’s nemeses.
  — Pat Padua, Twin Cities, 13 Aug. 2019
• The Bell Jar may be the most famous evocation of depression in fiction.
  — Nicole Rudick, The New York Review of Books, 14 May 2020
• Jones has a knack for gripping detail and vivid evocation.
  — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021
• The second somewhat more subtle evocation of the Cold War is via horror tropes.
  — Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, 8 July 2019
• The ending of his book is a beautiful evocation of peace—a riotous man’s homage to stillness.
  — David Brooks, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2022
• Its strands are enveloped in a confit that extracts the purest evocation of tomato.
  — David Prior, CNT, 20 Sep. 2017
• Joyce’s evocation of seafood helped counter last week’s visual of a plate full of calamari, displayed by a Rhode Islander during the Democrats’ roll call of the states.
  — Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 26 Aug. 2020
• Confronted with that duality, the works are a soft and somber evocation of the cruelty of the world.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Feb. 2023
• For instance, a tiny quote of Chopin in the 21st, a spectral wisp of a phrase on the piano, serves as an eerily eloquent evocation of a past not allowed to be buried.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 5 June 2019
• Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar may be the most famous evocation of depression in fiction.
  — Nicole Rudick, The New York Review of Books, 29 Apr. 2020
• After all, that's what vanilla is all about; not generic, one-note body sprays, but an evocation of sweetness and love.
  — Rachel Krause, Allure, 8 Nov. 2022
• Falla’s evocations are of his own time and place, not a trucking in allegories.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2023
• But the book caught on through word of mouth, as readers were charmed by Mr. Mayle’s evocation of a rural world where the only thing that seemed to matter was the quality of life.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2018
• The delightful fragrance of Aqua Celestia is an evocation of the ocean breeze.
  — Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
• Precision can be the enemy of evocation, and evoking is what Smith seeks to do.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
• As an evocation of a different era, the movie is quite wonderful.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 23 June 2017
• And to dwell, finally, on the evocation of a time — 4 a.m. — when almost no one is awake, and the entire world seems to blow through your vanished defenses.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2020
• More often, the evocation is more a matter of feeling and spirit, a kind of low-key, pensive rapture.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
• Autun exists in the book like an evocation, a dream place, eternal and yet always slipping away.
  — New York Times, 5 June 2018
• Complete with a big brass band, and Zellweger offering up an evocation of the late icon, the song gleams with pure joy, thanks in no small part to Smith's inclusion.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2019
• Dan brings up Jackson Pollock, and his table is littered with blobs and splashes in an evocation of the artist’s style; Gail quickly gets the reference.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 29 May 2024
• Miss Flower will mark Torrini’s first solo record in a decade and represents an evocation of a woman’s life reimagined.
  — Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 19 June 2024

Last Updated: 8 Sep 2024