Example Sentences

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Mason’s face is a picture of anxiety and anguish, but the evocativeness of these intimate, sparing, vulnerable words, so keenly meant, set to Mills’s score … I simply cannot describe it.

From The Guardian • Aug. 7, 2018

In playing of a calibre any opera-house orchestra would struggle to match, he and the players displayed each interlude as a tone-poem of extraordinary evocativeness, wafting the invigorating smell of the sea into the Barbican.

From The Guardian • Feb. 14, 2013

The strength of any narrative that sweeps across generations lies in the evocativeness of the people and the universality of their stories: what they’ve lived through tells us where we may be going.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2010

With an appealing variegated score by Andrew Lloyd Webber and words by Tim Rice, Superstar builds to considerable impact and evocativeness, in part because it manages to wear its underlying seriousness lightly.

From Time Magazine Archive