This phrase evokes the primordial swamp and the Nqaul tree which grew within the original swamp.

Today the phrase "a new world order" evokes nothing but cynicism.

The very phrase "20th-century art" now evokes a global phenomenon, far larger and more complex than yesterday's bankable Picasso-to-Pollock model.

For most people, the phrase evokes bland food, bad sewing and self-righteous fussiness.

To a recently expatriated "primitive," offense does not even begin to describe the feeling this phrase evokes.

The phrase "lower realms" evoked a sense of uneasiness again.

Single phrases often evoked a whole era: "Beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly."

"Miss the ferry" - the phrase still evokes an ominous sense of failure and incompetence, like crashing the car, dropping the vase, losing your dog.

The term self-mutilation is also sometimes used, although this phrase evokes connotations that some find worrisome, inaccurate, or offensive.