evocation
ee voh kay shuhn
- n imaginative re-creation
- n calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations
- n stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors
- A gallimaufry of hallucinations, literary gossip and medical info, Burroughs' confession of a hipster junkie is its own X-rated movie, so vivid is its evocation of a mind gone bad .
- Arthur Golden's 1997 best seller, Memoirs of a Geisha, enticed readers with its authoritative evocation of an alien, exotic world, one in which women served men less with sexual .
- His dramatic evocation of a universal Oedipus complex, in which (to put a complicated issue too simply) the little boy loves his mother and hates his father, seems more like a .