Calls to mind

Usage examples of evokes.

For Marcel Proust, whose fifteen-volume A la Recherche du Temps Perdu is a long-drawn-out struggle to recall and thus to transcend a painful past, the trigger which evokes the entire history is the taste of a madeleine cake.

The unrivalled leader, Thomas, had just lifted his baton--that magic wand whose graceful yet mysterious motion evokes with equal ease, seemingly, the thunder of a storm, the song of a bird, the horrid din of an inferno, or a harmony so pure and lofty as to suggest heavenly strains.

The sorcerer who pricks his thumb before he evokes the shades knows well that they will heed his call only because they can lap his blood.

Our program evokes something that you seem to understand and find familiar, something you cannot analyze.

The warm, stroking mother is the mother who is free from the internal Parent-Child dialogue which evokes the not ok in herself.