evocative

Definition

  • adjective: bringing thoughts, memories, or feelings into the mind
  • adjective: evoking or tending to evoke an especially emotional response
  • often + 'of'
  • synonyms: developing, mindful, aware

Examples

  • His photographs are 'evocative of' the solitude of the desert.

  • He wrote a powerful and 'evocative' biography.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) ... and the moments that they select to actually draw ... ... the snapshot in time, is often right on the head. The most maddening, the most emotionally evocative. The notion of storyboards and what the Wachowskis do ... ... there's no compatibility to that. These are paintings. (..)
    2001 The Matrix Revisited