evocative , as many, consternation, How Thin Air and Summer Snow Can Heal the Soul

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Lucy Wood

How Thin Air and Summer Snow Can Heal the Soul

Last July, a recently divorced writer who had found solace in hiking took on a towering challenge: Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the lower 48 states.

New York City during the great blizzard of 1947 - evocative of the scene this morning, as the city digs out from the snow. http://ti.me/191Ytks

(Photo: Al Fenn—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Microsoft's Mobile Tactics Rattle PC Industry

Microsoft is testing new tactics to refashion its software for the mobile-device era, reaping reactions ranging from excitement to consternation from the computer makers and others it relies on as partners.

A few months before an election, Kraft's acquisition of Cadbury, one of the best-recognized names in Britain, is bound to cause consternation among Gordon Brown and his ministers, whose term has already been tarred by the innumerable job cuts wrought by the financial crisis.

"We saw another huge spike after Dick Cheney dropped an F-bomb in the Senate in 2004," and again in 2010 when Vice President Joe Biden did the same thing in the same place, Stamper said.
"It's a word that is very visually evocative. It's not just the F-word. It's F-bomb. You know that it's going to cause a lot of consternation and possible damage," she said.

evocative

Pronunciation: /ɪˈvɒkətɪv/

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adjective

• bringing strong images, memories, or feelings to mind:powerfully evocative lyrics the building’s cramped interiors are highly evocative of past centuries

Derivatives

evocatively

adverb

evocativeness

noun

Origin:

mid 17th century: from Latin evocativus, from evocat- 'called forth', from the verb evocare (see evoke)

consternation
n.
A state of paralyzing dismay. See synonyms at fear.

• 発音記号[kɑ`nstərnéiʃən | kɔ`n-]
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[名][U]足がすくむようなショック, 恐怖, 仰天（⇔composure）

to one's consternation
ひどくショックを受けたことには

She stared at him in ［with］ consternation.
彼女はぎょっとして彼を見詰めた.

[名][U]足がすくむようなショック, 恐怖, 仰天（⇔composure）

to one's consternation
ひどくショックを受けたことには

She stared at him in ［with］ consternation.
彼女はぎょっとして彼を見詰めた.

many

adj., more (môr, mōr), most (mōst).

1. Being one of a large indefinite number; numerous: many a child; many another day.
2. Amounting to or consisting of a large indefinite number: many friends.

n. (used with a pl. verb)

1. A large indefinite number: A good many of the workers had the flu.
2. The majority of the people; the masses: "The many fail, the one succeeds" (Tennyson).

pron. (used with a pl. verb)
A large number of persons or things: "For many are called, but few are chosen" (Matthew 22:14).

idiom:
as many

1. The same number of: moved three times in as many years.

[Middle English, from Old English manig.]