Mr. Askoldov has Babel's gift for evoking larger, metaphysical themes through details.

Last year he published "Meditations from a Movable Chair," a collection of essays evoking themes in his stories.

This title, in other words, evokes the tone and themes of the novel, which has recently been adapted for television.

"The Silver plan is designed somehow to evoke themes of class warfare."

When settlement leaders talk about outposts, they evoke themes that run deep in Jewish history.

Yes, a tragic story evokes tragic themes.

Some works evoke racial themes (he is black), but his magpie relationship to other people's styles undermines development of his own social or spiritual vision (Johnson).

A few miles along the track, in Milford, Mr. Bush evoked themes of patriotism and national pride.

More ordinary works of art were also designed to evoke mythic themes, like the amulets that Egyptians commonly wore to invoke divine powers.

The resorts evoke various benign themes.