evocative

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On many tracks, he crafts a thickened variation on Bob Dylan’s wild mercury sound, with gurgling organ, touches of strings and horns, and evocative swells of pedal-steel guitar.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

Where her vision clears, she’s in a hall lit by candlelight and crystal chandeliers draped in pearls, dressed in an iridescent gown and jewels evocative of the decade’s New Romantic style.

From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026

The songs on Black British Music are vivid and evocative, finding light in the darkness but never quite shaking off an undercurrent of sadness.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026

Daniel Lopatin discusses the process of composing his synthesized score for Josh Safdies’s ‘Marty Supreme,’ both evocative of ’80s nostalgia and something new.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

I did think, however, that the symbolism of the rat and squirrel or rat-squirrel or squirrel-rat was evocative and rather excellent.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole