conjure

Listening to the blues became a way of “conjuring” his uncle, the director says.

But because the audience doesn’t know any of these people or what motivated them to become Navy SEALs, conjuring a genuine emotional attachment to what they endure afterward is all the more difficult.

Beatty’s cascading, relentless prose conjures a world in which the ridiculousness of race as a social construct leads to high absurdity.

A relatively average town becomes the most breathtaking place on Earth when someone you love points out all of their favorite places, ones conjuring particular memories each time they pass.

He conjured the sardonic guru Mr. Natural, a tiny sex fiend called the Snoid and other sweaty, anxious creatures, human and otherwise.