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evocative

adjective as in suggestive

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As framed by beautiful, evocative pairings that punctuate the show’s final galleries, the conversation continued, with some of Manet’s later boudoir interiors and portraits of fashionable Parisiennes unthinkable without Morisot’s example.

Klein attached an array of small pebbles to the painting's surface, making it "evocative of a seabed beneath the blue abyss of an ocean", according to the auction house's description.

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Unlike a few of the seedling apples we’d tasted—some of which foragers evocatively call “spitters”—this was fruit I’d cut up to serve with thick slices of cheddar.

The club hits pulsed, her dancing was evocative and precise, and the set was again punctuated with a locally-sourced cover from each city she performs in; this time “The Chain” from Fleetwood Mac.

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The world of low-level gamblers is evocatively drawn and Anderson displays an unexpected tenderness to those who inhabit it.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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