evoke
verb (used with object)
to call up or produce (memories, feelings, etc.).
evoker
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a word derived from
evoke.
Example Sentences
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“Young is a maximalist, a putter-inner, an evoker of roiling appetites,” our critic Dwight Garner writes.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2018
The most celebrated true-crime book of all time, Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, is the quintessential work of an evoker.
From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2018
Always a gifted evoker of images, he portrays his fans as brain-dead beasts clapping and chanting, mindlessly in awe of fame.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2014
He was an early evoker of a certain kind of gay experience in America.
From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2013
As an imitator or evoker of the facts of life and nature, the artist must recognize and accept the character of those facts with which he has in any given case to deal.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various
