evocative
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“We are, all of us, breathless, up against a rock,” Fennell continues, referencing a particularly evocative scene she imagined for her film.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026
Where her vision clears, she’s in a hall lit by candlelight and crystal chandeliers draped in pearls, dressed in an iridescent gown and jewels evocative of the decade’s New Romantic style.
From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026
“Sons of Echo,” the two-part dance program at the Joyce Theater through Sunday, offers no insights regarding its evocative title.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 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
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
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