evoked
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The back-to-back releases of the Paramount+ drama “The Madison” and Apple TV comedy “Margo’s Got Money Troubles” this spring evoked Michelle Pfeiffer’s 1980s and 1990s movie heyday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Still, Mr. Lee has wonderfully evoked the unmatched urgency of this period of childhood, when everything, from a footrace to a girl’s smile, feels like a matter of life and death.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
The movie’s sweeping visuals and romantic love story evoked a sentiment similar to 1940s war romances.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
Intrigued by the vague mixture of menace and nostalgia that the image evoked, internet users began sharing stories and speculating that the Backrooms is a hidden dimension into which people might accidentally find themselves.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
An Eastern concept, born in the Fertile Crescent a few centuries before the birth of Christ, zero not only evoked images of a primal void, it also had dangerous mathematical properties.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
