evocative

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Mr. Friedman often rides his bike in his hometown of Jerusalem, at the intersection of roads named for Senesh and Sereni, “hoping for something evocative to happen.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Mr. Soto makes evocative use of pop songs and a wandering clarinet motif, and with cinematographer Juan Sarmiento G. fashions a rough-and-tumble aesthetic well-suited to its chaotic central character.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

The songs on Black British Music are vivid and evocative, finding light in the darkness but never quite shaking off an undercurrent of sadness.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026

Daniel Lopatin discusses the process of composing his synthesized score for Josh Safdies’s ‘Marty Supreme,’ both evocative of ’80s nostalgia and something new.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

One evocative idea is that it was a cosmic catastrophe, the explosion of a nearby star—a supernova like the one that produced the Crab Nebula.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan