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

Young is a maximalist, a putter-inner, an evoker of roiling appetites.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 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

I sat with my acquaintance in the middle of the room, and the evoker of spirits on the dais, and his wife between us and him.

From Ideas of Good and Evil by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)