Here you have a touch of romantic pathos and charm in the slim young knight, which evokes reverie and remembrance of warm soft legendary love such as El Greco is elsewhere persistently blind to.
The latter word evokesto occidental ears images of sensual seduction which the Moroccan harem seldom realizes.
To most people the word "oasis" evokes palms and sand; but though Morocco possesses many oases it has no pure sand and few palms.
In the same way the interior of a beautiful churchevokes and deepens our consciousness of religious emotion, and, therefore, of the profound significance of life.
To extol war ecstatically and to sing hymns of praise to it, to declare that it evokesthe highest virtues of man is a panegyric of crime, a thing anticipated and punishable in the penal code.
This effort restores him to full wakefulness and so evokes the customary association--disease.
Thus, an idea is accepted when it evokes similar ideas charged with emotion of the same quality.
Sea-sickness is associated in his mind with his own immunity from it, and therefore evokes not fear but self-confidence.
The order to fold his arms and rotate the upper part of his body to the right evokes an inconceivable display of contortions.
Its occurrence suggests that the ascending branch of the infraorbital nerve, springing from the trigeminal, is affected, and indeed pressure over its point of emergence evokes a certain amount of pain.
The attempt to put the displacement right evokes acute pain and stimulates opposition on their part.
To govern sheep, the dog evokes the fear of the wolf.
In this case the father does the wooing, but the mother evokes the truth about her son.
Very keen, no, but really the desires one evokes murmur in the ears like a flight of vernal butterflies and the rustling of their wings is sometimes soothing to the skin.
The images which one voluntarily evokes come to acquire mischievous habits and evoke themselves independently.
One of these ideas evokes another, and so an endless chain of images passes along.
The nerve-path through which a stimulus produces a response or through which one idea produces or evokes another.
On the contrary, if there is one fact in the history of literature more certain than another, it is the fact that the passion for natural beauty and the emotions it evokes are things of very modern date.
But, next, there is the pure and appealing beauty of the flower; and that evokes gathering recognitions of the beauty of nature and its grace to us.
Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.
It often evokes powers of action that, but for it, would have remained dormant.
Such a power, exercised by men of genius, evokes courage, enthusiasm, and devotion.
It differs from ordinary sensation in the fact that the stimulus which evokes the response, instead of being external and objective, is merely psychic and subjective.
Is it not rather that science evokesin us a deeper sense of awe?
He evokes the Devil, and he feeds white mice on the hosts which he consecrates.
The proximate end of its behaviour is to attack, nothing more, and this, of course, it can only do just in so far as the intruder evokes the appropriate instinct.
Next, we have the fact that the distant voice, or still more so the presence, of another male has an exciting influence and evokes a corresponding reply.
A male intrudes, and the intrusion evokes an immediate display of irritation on the part of the owner of the territory, who, rapidly uttering its song and jerking its wings, begins hostilities.
But this is a view which we cannot uphold, because on all these occasions an opposing male was present--and, so far as it is possible to judge by observation, that is the stimulus which in the main evokes a hostile response.
The growth in love, and the sacrifice which evokes that growth in love, are, I would suggest the most precious things in life.
Their mysterious sleepevokes the successive phases of the year.
It evokes the past and the future; the obscure shadows out of which this soul is endeavoring to emerge and the bright regions toward which it advances.
The unhealed wound Evokes more pain Than does the faded scar.
Death is no menace to me in itself; the unpleasantness of ill health or the grief of losing a loved one is that which, for me, evokes the wary anticipation associated with death.
Still more significant is the fact that although blue is a sacred color, the dominant tones of the feeling it evokes are gladness and tenderness.
As for impressions of night, however, I doubt if the emotion that night evokes in this nineteenth century can be classed with the sadness that beauty brings.
Its name evokes evil tradition in the public mind.
There is something curiously feminine and intoxicating in the quality of its charm, something that evokes the silver-pensive mood.
All this renders the picture divinely perfect, and evokes from the heart of every lover of Scripture the most intense admiration.
The divine accuracy of the type evokes the admiration of the renewed mind.
Nellie Melba's name evokes an image of a cold marble slab but if she had retained her original name of Mitchell it would have been no better .
The presence of these currents evokes a force of repulsion between the magnet and the wire; and to cause the one to approach the other, this repulsion must be overcome.
He sees the invisible lines along which its magnetic action is exerted, and sweeping his wand across these lines evokes this new power.
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