These days, Mr. Gore almost constantly invokes Albert Gore Sr. on the campaign trail, but largely to emphasize what a self-made man his father was.

In Copycat, the serial killer played by Harry Connick, Jr. constantly invoked "Jesus."

More broadly, others pointed out that the extermination campaigns contradict the guiding ideology of China's current leaders, who constantly invoke the need to build a "harmonious society."

Mr. Heard also has a wearisome habit of constantly invoking pop-culture icons and, thus, implicitly trivializing his subjects.

Indeed, the Spanish fighters constantly invoked his name and often equated the battle against the Aztecs and the Incas with the campaign against the Muslims.

The story, style, characters, and settings constantly invoke Ozu's iconography, and especially Late Spring.

God, constantly invoked, works overtime in Nigeria.

In their appeals they constantly invoke the need to expel foreigners from their soil, a battle cry that is the great common denominator of suicide bombers around the world.

"There is no justification whatsoever for constantly invoking the idea that my enemy's enemy is my friend," Qallab wrote.

Gore was also clumsy in the way he constantly invoked his close friend and partner Bill Clinton.