Baldwin's wonderfully awkward work - the overly literal descriptions of archeological sites evoke the tedium of guidebooks - captures well the violence, macabre naturalism and monumentality of Mesoamerican civilization.

This description by J. H. Rosney, correspondent for Harper's Magazine (February 1888) evokes a scene:

Her vivid descriptions evoke more than just a lost age - they evoke a certain feeling for America that cannot quite be duplicated.

His description evokes the cultural hothouse of the Belle Epoque when tastes and standards were defined for a small public by a tiny elite.

Mr. Remini's descriptions of Clay, the consummate actor, evoke an era when rhetoric, sent forth by the unamplified human voice, was a vital instrument of governance.

The method of killing a human child ... proscribed by this statute is so horrible that the most clinical description of it evokes a shudder of revulsion.

He found himself doing things with her whose very description would have evoked the Index, and that no decent person would have cared to imagine.

Her description of their wall of angry scrawls evokes a feeling of recognition in a reader who lived through the 60's.

The description of Emmanuel Goldstein, with a goatee beard, evokes the image of Leon Trotsky.

More germane, his description of an inquiry into the 1858 failure evokes the murky state of science at the time.