单词 | evocative |
释义 | evocative (ɪvɒkətɪv ) adjective If you describe something as evocative, you mean that it is good or interesting because it produces pleasant memories, ideas, emotions, and responses in people. [formal] Her story is sharply evocative of Italian provincial life. [+ of] ...the evocative power of cinema. Synonyms: expressive, moving, striking, revealing evocatively adverb [ADVERB with verb, ADVERB adjective] ...the collection of islands evocatively known as the South Seas. Collocations: evocative description They would contain an evocative description of a scene in a bar or on the road, but the narrative would only go so far, like short stories without endings. Times, Sunday Times It begins with an evocative description of working life in the coal mines. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His evocative descriptions brought tears to my eyes, just as the 'miraculous' sounds of the 'urchins' did to his. Times, Sunday Times That, and their evocative descriptions of the landscape. Times, Sunday Times He works hard to develop this theme, with evocative descriptions of the terrain, clearly based on his own investigations. The Times Literary Supplement She curated that evocative image and then used it not just to elicit the sympathy of a nation, but perhaps also to communicate with her unfaithful husband. Times,Sunday Times Yet many of the most evocative images have a wilfully improvisational feel. Times, Sunday Times The evocative images of happy family get-togethers, captured so beautifully on-camera, chime horribly with the bottled grief we hear down the years. Times, Sunday Times Instead, there were powerful, evocative images which cystallized layers of meaning and association... Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He began his career creating evocative images as a still photographer and director of television commercials before focusing his attention on television, film and publishing projects. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 After all, it's an evocative name in modern history. Times, Sunday Times Not the most memorable and evocative name in adventure. Times, Sunday Times No surviving local legends have explained its evocative name. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Who remembers now the evocative names of the old exchanges? Times, Sunday Times Plus one of the most evocative names in our industrial history. Times, Sunday Times The dust jacket of the book shows a wonderfully evocative photograph (see right). The Times Literary Supplement His text, as well as the numbingly evocative photographs, presents an agonising portrait of loss. Times, Sunday Times Evocative photographs record the neglected but still intact printing house at the very beginning of the twentieth century. The Times Literary Supplement These books which look much the same to the layman, contain evocative photographs of steam, diesel and electric locomotives idling in the yards or steaming across the land. Globe and Mail The dust jacket of the book shows a wonderfully evocative photograph (see right). The Times Literary Supplement (2014) A wonderfully evocative celebration of the richness and complexity of painting as it is happening at the moment in studios all over Britain. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The snippets of dialogue, picked up from hours and hours of conversations with relatives, are wonderfully evocative. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The music is wonderfully evocative, taking listeners to sunlit vistas way beyond the confines of a single room. The Sun (2010) I think it a wonderfully evocative collection of historical artefacts. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Translations: Chinese: 唤起回忆的 Japanese: 喚情的な |
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