"It's all just entertainment," she said of her rhymes evoking violence and raunchy sexuality.

The whole ensemble evokes male and female elements, violence and healing.

Relations between goblins and wizards have been strained for centuries by misunderstandings on both sides, sometimes evoking violence.

But although "Suz/o/Suz," which has the last of its four performances this evening, does evoke violence, chaos and irrationality, the hourlong performance is really a structured music-theater ritual that is more beautiful than terrifying.

Even if the plots evoke violence, sometimes in powerful language, the general style of writing is reflective and even casual, a relief from the darkness of the past.

It's a phrase that means "the carefree nineties," but to a Russian it evokes chaos, violence, self-destruction, and lawlessness.

The namesake of the psychological and subcultural term sadism, his name is used variously to evoke sexual violence, licentiousness and freedom of speech.

Watchwords like posse - evoking street-gang violence - crept into the dialogue.

There, too, Karen Finley must have learned how to combine truth with parody, the pedestrian with the gruesome, and most dramatically how to evoke real-life violence with eerie vividness.