invocation

Example Sentences

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The event included interfaith invocations, musical performances and block party-style celebrations along Broadway’s “Canyon of Heroes,” drawing attention to the city’s cultural and political diversity.

From Salon

The film’s repeated invocation of its own title in different contexts is another instance of adding too many eggs to the custard.

From The Wall Street Journal

Tina Brown called American Canto “absurdly pretentious,” wincing at its repeated invocations of Joan Didion’s unsettling Santa Ana winds.

From The Wall Street Journal

In a very modern invocation of the swords-to-plowshares principle, he has evidently told Ukrainian officials that its demobbed soldiers could soon be earning Silicon Valley-level salaries operating American data centers in the country.

From The Wall Street Journal

But Shakespeare as a brand remains unparalleled in our culture: Mere invocation of his work can confer a warm, orangey glow of importance upon an otherwise pedestrian reflection on it.

From The Wall Street Journal