noun
definition
The act of calling out or forth, or evoking.
Examples of evocation in a Sentence
Seeds of Peace offered a compelling evocation of the pain and futility of war.
The book provides a brilliant, lasting evocation of one of Britain's best-loved poets.
The title poem is a brilliant evocation of the loneliness of abandonment.
His reputation was made by his early novel, The Shadows, an allusive and highly literary evocation of the Holocaust.
What provides the deep, sonorous undertone to the individual 's expression, is the evocation of the eternal dance.
The result is a gripping, emotional and vivid evocation of Bonaparte 's early years leading up to the Italian campaign of 1797.
Here, acoustic guitar and bass, brushes and sparse piano create a melancholy evocation of memories of lost times and old friends.
The second, a moving evocation of the folly of war gives the book its title.
Each individual used their own script, photographs and sound track to produce a powerful evocation of their own story.
On a gruesome theme we have the deliberate ceremonial evocation of deific or devilish forms.
His first published poems were praised for their atmospheric evocation of working class life.
Gary's poem is a powerful evocation of the cleansing of the spirit that is possible in the recovery from madness.
What provides the deep, sonorous undertone to the individual's expression, is the evocation of the eternal dance.
Yet this mere ghost of a picture, this evocation, half vanished as it was, by a great world-genius of a mighty spiritual world-event, remained a thing indescribably impressive.
The river runs steadily through this vivid evocation of a childhood in India at the time of the First World War.
The evocation of spirits, especially in the form of necromancy, is an important branch of the demonology of many peoples; and the peculiarities of trance mediumship, which seem sufficiently established by modern research, go far to explain the vogue of this art.
King John and his baronage, relying on the fact that such evocation of cases to a superior, court had never before been known, refused to allow that it was valid.
In 1438 the council of Basel took away all papal original jurisdiction (save in certain reserved cases - of which infra), evocation of causes to Rome, appeals to Rome omisso medio, and appeals to Rome altogether in many causes.