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Because it evokes something that in a sense has been lost.
It evokes the container metaphor of communication, in which we conceive of ideas as objects, sentences as containers, and communication as a kind of sending.
I've had individuals who have been involved in real bombings tell me that it evokes the same kind of fear.
The word concussion evokes a fear these days more so than it ever has, and I know this personally.
I mean, beyond the unusual sight of seeing two men dancing together, it always evokes and engages.
For me that poem evokes my love for Paul, and a new fortitude that came from loving and losing him.
And in so doing, he evokes the effect of entering into the magical world of great theatre that plays with the boundary between illusion and reality – and dramatizes the possibility that life is but a dream.
This evokes Shakespeare’s own role as the great entertainer who surrenders himself, ultimately, to our applause.
It evokes the giddy disorientation that you feel in an unfamiliar place.
Henriksen evokes an unusual, not-quite-earthbound Everyman (even sporting an ample gut), but Roberts is about as threatening and scary as an extra in "Death Wish 3"; we're never sucked in to the point where we actually CARE about what's happening, and the conclusion slides into improbable territory (I kept thinking it was going to be "Fight Club" all over again, but I was mistaken).
To interest, a more threatening menace would have been needed, at least a few people you care for and evokes some emotions in you.
Between irrelevancies, platitudes (to which the actors from the films are particularly prone), and acting out (by fans making the most--if not the best--of their one shot at fame), I could glean little of the special appeal of LOTR, the special emotional responses it evokes, and the range of the special creative forms those responses can take.
Editing, mentioned before, is hit and miss; sometimes it evokes a good ghetto feel, but mostly its irritating -- jerky, quirky angles and really dull lingering facial closeups.
Even the most sociopathic character evokes sympathy.
She evokes a sense of desperation that is at times both comic and tragic but always genuine and quite beautiful.
Montgomery's gritty camerawork and cinematography coupled with the brilliantly unemotional performances she evokes from her cast heighten the sense of shocking, raw realism in this autobiographical story of a 14-year-old Jennifer's seduction of her married boarding-school guidance counselor.
The infamous ever present boom mike evokes shades of the gloriously incompetent Ed Wood and never grows unfunny.
Based upon the experiences of writer-actor Ruben Santiago-Hudson, the film lovingly recreates the upstate New York boardinghouse and evokes the cultural climate of a world in transition in the 1960s.
This films evokes many different emotions, but the final feeling is one of admiration of the human spirit undaunted by tragedy.
The camera-work is beautiful and evokes feelings and perspectives that the movie itself lacks to deliver.
The story of Sweeney Todd evokes memories of the work of classic writers like Charles Dickens, and more contemporary writers like Edward Gory.
The kind of title that ruins a film because it neither evokes the plot nor the characters.
Having grown up in New Jersey and having spent many a day and night on the gritty streets of New York in the 1970's, watching a film like "The Seven-Ups", or its kindred spirit, "The French Connection", always evokes fond memories of a time and place which, for some, might have been NYC's darkest hour, but which for me, in my early twenties, was always one fun-filled adventure after another.
The movie evokes many emotions.
The overall plot still doesn't make a lot of sense and the script is chock-full of irrational aspects, but it's nonetheless an engaging formula and undoubtedly one that evokes an atmosphere of suspense and fear.
No movie evokes the feelings of growing up in the 60's like Four Friends.
I've tried to watch this show several times, but for a show called "That '70s Show," I don't find much apart from a few haircuts and the occasional reference to disco that actually evokes the '70s -- the decade in which I grew up.
Gulfax is an albino version of Chewbacca and evokes incontrollable chuckles whenever he opens his poodle-snout to yelp something incomprehensible.
I have a home video of my cat farting that evokes more interest than Arquette's negatively-dimensional portrayal of anguished loss...and, talk about deux ex machina for Mr. Stanley T.; thank god, just in the nick o time he thought to have Dave call the cops! and thank shiva that the cops had just caught the true killer...what!!! up until the credits i was still waiting for it to be some kind of grift against Arquette and his "hidden millions"...no, Mrs. Spielberg, you don't escape unscathed: what the hell was that kitchen scene with the "athlete's foot in my crotch" gag??? are you worse in this or "just cause"?? i dunno...hey film lovers: why don't you make it a blockbuster night and rent this along with "jersey girl" and "white chicks" and then commit sepukka (or is it seppuka)...and take E. Dunsky with you....
It is a classic shot that evokes dread into any good fan of the genre and is a great to keep the killer's identity a secret.
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