Example collocations logo

Evoke in sentence

93 examples of Evoke in a sentence

It's overly wordy and fails spectacularly to evoke the tension and fear that the real-life characters must have felt as they dodged the French Revolution's fickle hand of justice.
Here one line attempts such as "he just took off" or "I know you don't have love in heart" just do fully evoke something worth the audience's time.
I gave this film 10 not because it is a superbly consistent movie, but for it's pure ability to evoke emotions in its audience.
Instead of gazing at vistas from afar, he incorporates them into the drama as characters that redirect, complicate, or evoke the human characters' goals.
The other actors and actresses, especially Ron Moody and Shani Wallis, are equally wonderful and offer powerful portrayals of characters who evoke sympathy and warmth without being caricatures.
Even if we do not evoke God, we cannot justify the death penalty except as an act of vengeance, and here the film shows vengeance is the worst possible motivation in the rendition of justice and in the establishment of public peace.
One aspect that I really enjoyed about the film was the contrast of the two brothers, one so very openly expressive in his childlike way and the other completely stoic but both able to evoke deep emotion.
In every way, this film is meant to evoke your sense memories.
This will evoke some kind of feeling, if it doesn't then I seriously think you weren't able to appreciate it!
Although the cast had potential I couldn't help but feel that this dramatisation hammed up Sherlock Holmes horribly and failed to evoke the atmosphere and norms of Edwardian England.
I started collecting the movies after reading the books and I gotta say: I do enjoy low budget, low grade films sometimes for the simple pleasure and nostalgia they evoke.
The main characters evoke empathy from the very start.
I was drawn by the Garbo aspect of his life; basically walking away from a film 'career'(such as it was) and onto the streets of San Francisco, where sightings of him evoke the kind of response one heard about the Swedish Sphynx in New York.
The title is obviously intended to evoke memories of Atwill's great film "Doctor X" from Warners in 1932, but the comparison only makes this film seem even worse than it is.
Totally unremarkable - even the stars seem as if they are pushing it beyond its reasonable bounds to try to evoke some fun or magic, but they fail.
This leviathan from MGM piles on the lavish sets and costumes but manages to evoke little more than polite boredom mixed with the occasional snicker.
While Italian sex symbol Valeria Marini tries, she's hampered by her babyish voice - not to mention the exaggerated moans during the love-making and the fact that the couple's relationship never convinces for a second (if it's supposed to evoke "l'amour fou", it's a pathetic attempt)!
A great and wise director (whom shall remain nameless) once remarked A movie is dangerous if only for the mood it may evoke, and the choice of when to see a movie is just as important as the movie you choose to see.
Although WILBUR WANTS TO KILL HIMSELF is an honest and unflinching look at death and suicide, it manages to evoke overwhelming feelings of compassion and tenderness.
McElwee manages to evoke an entire persona for himself - whether authentic or not - with scenes like these, at the same time drawing an insightful - if slightly overblown, though satirically so - comparison of himself to William Tecumseh Sherman and his devastating Civil War march through the South.
A quality film should evoke the thought process and possibly release repressed fears and anxieties.
Is that a rude statement, designed to evoke a defensive response in people with poor taste in films - or no taste at all? No.
But unlike Kuknoor's stories, these stories are weak in narration and characters (except Konkona Sen Sharma) and fail to evoke any empathy or identification.
What separates Chaplin from other comedian filmmakers is his ability to evoke a sense of pity and/or sympathy for his character.
There is a nice gore scene (that will surely make anyone who watches it wince), the scenery is put to very beautifully shot aesthetic use, and of course nicely acted moments that accurately evoke the hopelessness of the situation and sometimes are even ironically witty.
The stock home video footage of the lead characters as children was an overused device, eliciting feelings of boredom as opposed to the sentiment it is intended to evoke.
"I've got it, Jim!" "What's that, George?" "What are the two subjects we can combine to evoke sympathy from a guilt-ridden audience while still being original in an annoying Paulie Shore kind of way?" "The Holocaust and a team of break-dancing ninjas from the future?"
As the best of French cinema does so adroitly, "The Window of Saint-Pierre" tells most of it's story laconically with knowing looks and subtle behaviors while the story it tells is a relentlessly plodding drama of unspoken words and the emotions they evoke.
Here is finally a movie, that shocks you, surprises you, questions you, slaps you, make you cry, shows you a mirror-to sum up evoke strong responses.
This short movie directed by Tom Clegg ("McVicar") is senseless, incredibly predictable and far too implausible to evoke any feelings of fright or disturbance.
Back