What is "evocative"

Usage examples of "evocative".

The artful, evocative temptation he pressed on her held her captive, unable to think, unable to actable only to feel.

For often she would sprinkle a few drops of the evocative fluid upon her pages, preparing the blank sheets for her words as a muralist might prepare his wall.

With glass and granite sculpture a gravel surface would be very evocative of the ruggedness of the Norwegian landscape.

I began juggling those odd, evocative poems around, fitting them back into their original homiletic framework.

And this profligate cityscape is populated by characters--some met, some merely mentioned--with names equally evocative: Porphyria Levant, Estella Velvet, Brother Orphelin, Cerberus Cresset, Mavortian von Heber.

He began a slow, almost folklike melody, deceptively simple but very evocative.

Despite the evocative surname, Dagobert is a genuine descendant of a noble family from Normandy, whose forebears were closely involved in the Languedocian Masonic societies centred on the Marquis de Chefdebien and the Hautpoul family.

He looked up as Caralie appeared at the booth, bringing with her the scent of soap and shampoo and the evocative perfume he'd noticed the day before.

The smell of Ava's house washed over him, a combination of scents so evocative of another era as to be almost claustrophobic-lavender, silver polish, sheets kept in cedar chests.

The smell of Ava's house washed over him, a combination of scents so evocative of another era as to be almost claustrophobic—lavender, silver polish, sheets kept in cedar chests.

Praxeas admired the evocative sound of names like Ardzrouni and Boidí, he found a loftiness in Baudolino, Colandrino, and Scaccabarozzi, and he dreamed of exotic lands hearing Porcelli and Cuttica named.

The lieutenant's helmet has a green cloth cover stretched over it, and on top of that there is dark webbing, a black net stretched taut and tense and at this moment detumescing, heart thumping evocative.

It was a most disconcerting thing to see S/he spoke with the barely controlled voice of a humanoid, but hir every move and gesture was evocative of a great cat.

Rather than Eastern Approaches, a romantic work of travel set in the 1930s and 1940s by British diplomat Fitzroy Maclean, in which a procession of camels on the outskirts of Baku “reminded” the author that he “was already on the fringes of Asia,” I found the most evocative guide to the region to be a book called Ecocide in the USSR: Health and Nature Under Siege, by Murray Feshbach, a professor at Georgetown University, and Alfred Friendly, Jr.

It is August 14th, 1965, a day that was, a day that still is in the mind of a dreaming woman handcuffed to a bed in a house on the shore of a lake forty miles south of Dark Score (but with the same mineral smell, that nasty, evocative smell, on hot, still summer days), and although the twelve-year-old girl she was doesn't see Will creeping up behind her as she bends over to address her croquet ball, turning her bottom into a target simply too tempting for a boy who has only lived one year for each inning in a baseball game to ignore, part of her mind knows he is there, and that this is the seam where the dream has been basted to the nightmare.