evocatively
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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An evocatively realized setting such as Ms. Bigelow’s Washington nerve center can be ample reason to make a movie worth seeing, but three others that were overflowing with local atmosphere offered far more than that.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025
The scenes that open this ravishing drama by Wang Xiaoshuai feel like pieces of a cryptic puzzle, gesturing evocatively at a whole that remains out of view.
From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2024
Ms Lahiri has written evocatively of how the two have been in a "long-distance relationship while being in the same city", meeting across a glass partition in prison and talking on the intercom.
From BBC • Jan. 22, 2024
Akunyili Crosby’s compositions include paintings, photographic transfers from archival Nigerian magazines and more that result in “visual tapestries of contemporary life that evocatively express the intricacies of African diasporic identity,” says the gallery.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2023
Voices from present and past speak here evocatively.
From Erotica Romana by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
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