So while they may have increased their share to 37 percent from 22 percent in 1998, the Christian Democrats hardly evoked enthusiasm among the voters.

The race hardly evokes the passion of the Clinton-Dole campaign.

I ran in the fifth and final heat and won easily in 10.25 seconds, hardly evoking any comment over the air-waves.

During the first hour, the room hardly evoked thoughts of home cooking.

But the name hardly evoked drinks at the Plaza and walks in Central Park.

The result, a 20-story fortified wall around the base of a 1,776-foot tower, hardly evokes freedom - rather, it embodies fear and anxiety.

A good example is the main train station - a concrete monstrosity that hardly evokes the romance of travel.

But football and basketball players have voluntarily negotiated salary caps and their privileged lives hardly evoke images of slavery.

From the outside, the Church of the Nativity hardly evokes feelings of the divine.

But even those that are natural hardly evoke images of a country harvest.