As the movie skillfully evokes the desperate bonding of two people stuck in close quarters, the claustrophobic ticket booth becomes a metaphor for its characters' pent-up turmoil.

Kerr skillfully evokes a bleak, cluttered and tawdry environment.

Mr. Metcalf skillfully evokes his characters' sordid environments.

White is clearly in control of the many characters here, and he skillfully evokes the class tensions, racism and anti-Yankee sentiment of this region.

"Angel Dust," directed by Sogo Ishii, skillfully evokes a world in which everyday objects take on a sinister aura the longer the camera contemplates them.

The mountain is practically a character in its own right, and Bausch skillfully evokes both its harshness and its natural beauty.

A powerfully made movie, "Mississippi Burning," released in 1988, skillfully evoked the violent, Gothic atmosphere of the time and place.

But each skillfully evokes the man.

And it skillfully evokes the light, color, silence and intimacy that characterize Vermeer's works.

It skillfully evokes the turbulent emotional atmosphere and unusual dramatis personae of the poet's Amherst circle.