But he laces his talks these days with evocative passages about social ills.

In one evocative passage in a Sumerian hymn, Enki stands at the empty riverbeds and fills them with his 'water'".

One of the most evocative passages imagines human beings developing over millions of years while being watched in wonder by monkeys who have not evolved in the same way.

Sometimes Ms. Holland's use of this language results in beautifully evocative passages: "You will know the place, should you ever come, as soon as you have seen it," she writes.

She has chosen, this time, to combine her powers of observation with genuinely poetic language to produce some highly evocative passages.

Both pieces had finely worked, richly evocative passages, straining to break free of their unyielding programs.

In an evocative passage about her mother, she recalled a bittersweet childhood ritual: watching Jo Copeland at her vanity table as she prepared for an evening out.

An evocative passage appears in H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds.

This Mr. Lyons does very well in passage after evocative passage on this pastime that is "not a sport but a pursuit that engages our total selves."

Most moving and evocative passage: In his visit to a jail for juveniles in Marlin, Tex., when a 15-year-old inmate asked him, "What do you think of me?"