Invokes in a sentence

A similar failure to describe the actual nature of the injustice is at play in virtually all cases in which the media invokes the spectre of cultural appropriation.

From the leaning skyscrapers to a detour through an American History museum, the episode painstakingly invokes the Boston-set segment of the game.

In July, he traveled 11 hours from Argentina to New York to visit the tomb of the revered Rebbe of Lubavitch, Rav Menachem Mendel Schneerson, ZT”L (he frequently invokes the Rebbe’s teachings on television).

Perhaps the best part of McDaniels’ redesign of Galactus is how it invokes the science fiction movies of the 1950s, which helped inform the science fiction comics of the time – including ones being published by Marvel Comics.

Putin consistently invokes the heroic death of Russian soldiers.

There are certainly discussions worth having about what exactly Latter-day Saints do (or don’t do) that invokes such ire in the broader public.

The title’s words sewn into the gloves invokes the story in Martin Luther King Jr.’s book (1963) in which a Black adolescent on death row during the Jim Crow era called out to the famous Black boxer from the gas chamber.

This new musical version of “The Color Purple,” which also invokes such acclaimed works as “The Lion King” and “Roots,” is a worthy addition to that list.

A powerful prayer, it invokes all nine choirs of angels and his guardian angel.

As the head of a company that frequently invokes the radical fashion ideology of its female founder and designer, Gabrielle Chanel, Nair isn’t shy in her desire to continue to deviate from Chanel’s long line of male executives.

Essentially, this shows that the bar for procedural safeguards must be higher for the state when it invokes grave charges against a citizen.

He invokes cannibalism to describe civil war, saying that it is akin to using bits of fish to lure more fish or cutting off a mouse’s tail to use as bait in a mouse trap.

Leslie McCurdy invokes the “spirit” of Harriet Tubman as she portrays the life of the famous Underground Railroad conductor, recreating stories familiar and some rarely told, using words said to have been Harriet Tubman’s own.

Often, he invokes fashion during awkward or painful situations.

The border dispute dates back to colonial treaties, with Malawi relying on the 1890 Anglo-German Treaty that places the lake within its borders, while Tanzania invokes the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, which suggests a median boundary.

The drug company invokes a long history of scientists, including Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein, to celebrate its 175-year existence.

The notion of receiving something for nothing invokes a tricky psychological algebra.

The title story invokes a woman who takes her chronically ill husband to a spa, the site of a former luxury hotel that her grandfather had taken her mother to when she was small.

This third space invokes the potency of action and agency as both practice and tool from a cultural location (i.e. often coming from the vantage and frames of ancient wisdom and tradition), and knowledge as resource.

At the end, when Rosa confronts him (in a face-off at gunpoint that’s way too farfetched to summon the power it’s going for), she gives a speech that invokes “Titus Andronicus,” Polanski and Bill Cosby, and rape culture in general.