The Swiss-born Johann Heinrich Füssli spent most of his career in England, and while his fundamental style was based on neoclassical principles, his subjects and treatment more often reflected the "Gothic" strain of Romanticism, and sought to evoke drama and excitement.

For that matter, theatrical interest as well, given Mr. Gergiev's ability to evoke drama in outsize scores, intended for the stage or not.

Thus Holy Week - the unfolding narrative of Jesus' passage to the cross - evokes powerful musical drama that, in turn, enriches the power of the event itself.

The words deftly evoke drama, but the music suggests comedy.

The island has a very low crime rate, and the windswept islands are a thing of beauty, which evoke drama and tranquility at the same time.

Boxes of copies of the report, at right, stood in mute testimony to the far-ranging investigation that evoked much drama as it traced arms deals and ideals from the White House to Nicaragua by way of Iran, uncovering a cast of characters even a playwright would be tested to invent.

Applause From Also-Rans If the Olympics evoked drama with Nancy and Tonya, the Oscars seem, at the moment, to be a one-man show centered on Steven.

Illustrious names evoke all the romance and glamorous drama of the mountain high life: Zermatt, St Moritz, Interlaken, Gstaad, the Jungfrau, Verbier and more.

But somehow it evoked strength and drama that this year's armchair viewers had associated only with the United States hockey team, or speed skating.