conjures up

Imagining Roman Britain conjures up images of emperors, gladiators, posh villas - and the army that held the empire together.

He conjures up evolutionary histories, stories of foreign species’ arrival and their effects on an ecosystem that is massively and continuously altered by human influence.

While the scene’s arid landscape conjures up past “Mad Max” adventures, the buttes and the galloping horse evoke the classic westerns from which this series has drawn some of its mythopoetic force.

Yet the casino still conjures up vintage Vegas nostalgia.

One was hearing a deceptively languid 1930s protest anthem that conjures up the ghastly image of “Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze.”