evocative
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But I get the sense that, in comparing Bourdain’s writing to the film, true die-hards will long for his quippy, evocative storytelling that’s absent from “Tony.”
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
The evocative title is a quotation from the 13th century Persian poet Rumi.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
The surprises came from the rock acts brought in to re-imagine the most evocative needle drops from Anderson’s ouvre.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
Fragments of evocative poetry are found throughout the lyrics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Kant suggested explicitly that M31 in the constellation Andromeda was another Milky Way, composed of enormous numbers of stars, and proposed calling such objects by the evocative and haunting phrase “island universes.”
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing evocative
This Week in Words: April 13–19, 2019
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"Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell
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The Night Circus
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