Definition of "evocation" []

• The act of evoking. (noun)
• Creation anew through the power of the memory or imagination. (noun)

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• "Nothing Geoff Dyer has written before is as wonderfully unbridled, as dead-on in evocation of place, longing, and the possibility of neurotic enlightenment, as irrepressibly entertaining as Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi."
• "I know he's not the characters in his songs, but the evocation is strong, ain't it?"
• "The evocation is a funky post-apocalyptic underwater future set in a scene from the inside cover of Parliament's"