Word: summons
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...which the skyscraper has evolved since the early '90s, at least in the hands of its most gifted practitioners, the kind who are proposing - and, hey, even producing, but usually in other nations - buildings that don't resemble the bland boxes that crowd most American downtowns. Nobody wants to summon back the naive techno-optimism of the 1950s and '60s. All the same, spend an hour at moma, and you can't resist gathering these buildings into an imaginary skyline as sexy as anything from TV's space-age Jetsons cartoon. Remember when the future was fun? Perhaps it still...
...exhausted by two days of intense competition, Harvard could not summon a similar effort in the A Final, finishing in sixth place...
Ever since Reagan's departure from the political stage, G.O.P. candidates have been trying to summon his image and perform the magic of uniting their party's disparate factions, from libertarians to religious conservatives to Big Business, under one tent. Don't forget that Reagan also left that imprint on another charismatic actor who now sits in the Governor's chair in California. As he tries to find his way out of a nasty fiscal crisis, Arnold Schwarzenegger is taking lessons from the Reagan playbook all the time. "They both have extraordinary personal charm," observes Ken Khachigian, Reagan's former...
...went. When Pierce describes Morocco, he can only summon up the adjectives “awesome” and “great...
...cannot be easy to summon terms to match the places and times where the world’s great ideological clashes have broken out into violent action. Carlson has faced that unenviable task in Cambridge and Baghdad, two instances that are only barely comparable, but which have led him to the same descriptive strategy of metaphor...