The symbols do not simply represent but participate in the meaning and, in combination with evocative phrases, are designed to provoke creative thinking.

The Japanese began defining such aesthetic ideas in a number of evocative phrases by at least the 10th or 11th century.

It is a wonderfully evocative phrase that stops you in your tracks - the pattern of abundance for 20th-century living.

Schneiderman coined an evocative phrase in campaigning for suffrage in 1912:

Lately, the lofty and evocative phrase "Harlem Renaissance" has been bandied about as if it were newly relevant.

Antique but evocative phrases like damage control and spin doctoring free-floated through his consciousness.

"High Heels in the Park" was one splendidly evocative phrase.

Once you've heard that evocative phrase it stays with you forever, carrying with it a seductive whiff of the soil.

That Cheever could draw a felicitous sketch and hit off an evocative phrase will come as no surprise.

"It's a very evocative phrase," Garin said.