Quotes About Evocative

There was a time when I found looking back to the 90s a little bit... tricky.

She described people, scenes, and objects she had never seen with the detail and precision of a Flemish master. Her words evoked textures and echoes, the color of voices, the rhythm of footsteps.

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

I'd quite like to run the Great Wall of China. I've never been to China and there's something about the Great Wall of China that is so iconic and evocative. It's only 3,000 miles. It's not that far.

Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.

The most evocative food smell is American seaside food - tuna melts and cookie dough ice cream, or the British version, fish and chips and toffee apples.

I don't think the Playboy brand has changed much at all - it's always been sophisticated and aspirational.

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting.

I'm as provocative of tears as an onion!

Manier savamment une langue, c'est pratiquer une espèce de sorcellerie évocatoire »

I don't really consider my music anything other than 'moody.' I don't know if that's a genre.

Use simple words, words that _create pictures_ and _action_ and that _generate feeling._

The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind.

Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy.

Tengo la habilidad de verter torrentes de lágrimas evocando tempestades pasadas

Kramer's unadorned prose is evocative of the best Jewish-American writing: of Singer, Malamud, Bellow, Ozick, Roth, Kunitz, Paley. This is the speech of the newly arrived, the immigrant, the oppositionist, the pariah; it is underclass, or working class, or even middle-class.

There is in a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

I have never been able to use that soap since. Scents are too evocative and the merest whiff jerks me back to that first night away from my wife, and to the feeling I had then.

Praise for JAMES LEE BURKE "James Lee Burke is the reigning champ of nostalgia noir." —The New York Times Book Review "A gorgeous prose stylist." —Stephen King "James Lee Burke is the heavyweight champ, a great American novelist whose work, taken individually or as a whole, is unsurpassed." —Michael Connelly "Burke's evocative prose remains a thing of reliably fierce wonder.

They say our sense of smell is our most primal, the one that can hit us the hardest, because it comes from the deepest part of the brain.

For a decade, Emma-Lee Moss has been steadily making weird, moody, melancholic music under the moniker 'Emmy the Great' that has been referred to as nue-folk, anti-folk, synthpop, and, most of all, literary.

I'm not interested in writing overtly autobiographical songs. I would rather explore interesting stories. I like the idea of the songs being evocative and distinctive, so I have in my mind the atmosphere that a film could evoke. I like to think of them existing in their own little world.

My favourite scores, they have very little music. I don't ever want to notice the music coming in. I just want it to suddenly be there and feel something.