What's the difference between evocative and nostalgic?

Evocative


Definition:

  • (a.) Calling forth; serving to evoke; developing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
  • (2) A response evocation program, some principles underlying its development and administration, and a review of some clinical experiences with the program are presented.
  • (3) Love Streams, his new album of beat-free, long-form compositions, is complex, evocative, arrestingly beautiful and disquietingly intense.
  • (4) In this atmosphere, Richardson's evocation of Rwanda, while extreme, is not entirely ludicrous.
  • (5) The results confirment the involvement of some neurologic structures and show up how the Evocated Potentials can disclose a damage in the a.m. structures even lacking clinical features.
  • (6) Evocation is defined by the ways in which individuals unintentionally elicit predictable reactions from others in their social environments.
  • (7) Attenuation of the vestibular response to rotary acceleration in free-fall causes sensory-motor mismatches during natural head movements in orbital flight that may be important factors in the evocation of space motion sickness.
  • (8) Headaches, bouts of tachycardia and excessive inappropriate diuresis are the most evocative clinical signs of a pheochromocytoma.
  • (9) Acute hemolysis and the clinical signs evocative of disseminated intravascular coagulation (cutaneous signs) are more rare.
  • (10) In Experiment 1, substantially different behaviors to light and tone CSs were observed; further, these differences were found to be dependent on specific learning experience rather than on the mere presence of different stimulation at the time of response evocation.
  • (11) Photograph: Rex Features Colourful and evocative, beach huts hold a special place in our hearts.
  • (12) Based around the meeting point of the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio rivers and renowned for its huge number of bridges and evocatively named neighbourhoods such as Shadyside and the Mexican War Streets, Pittsburgh is consistently ranked in surveys as a desirable place to live; the Economist Intelligence Unit this year called it America's most "livable" city.
  • (13) A fittingly memorable evocation of a defining chapter in the island’s history.
  • (14) They include the definition of determinants of transference in the immediate analytic interaction, the role of projection in transference and its evocation by the analyst, its basis in actual traits of the analyst which are exaggerated, and its expression as an effort to elicit confirmatory responses.
  • (15) Although many sensory and cognitive cues can elicit flashback phenomena, smell has distinctive characteristics that make evocation of vivid olfactory memories particularly likely.
  • (16) The cover art for the Cranberries' Bury the Hatchet (1999) was an evocation of paranoia – a giant eye bearing down on a crouching figure – that did neither band nor artist many favours; his image for Muse's Black Holes and Revelations (2006) amounted to a thin revival of his work for the Floyd that, if you were being generous, suggested a wry comment on that band's unconvincing attempts to revive the excesses of 1970s progressive rock.
  • (17) This result can be rationalized by a catalytic mechanism or by indirect action of nerve growth factor through a hypothetical cell which produces a neurite evocator on contact with the molecule of nerve growth factor.
  • (18) We have an escalation of chaos as a consequence of White House decision-making, made without consultation with the federal bureaucracy, that has no precedent in modern history and now has people taking to the streets in numbers and ways that is evocative of the 1960s,” Rothkopf said.
  • (19) To evaluate the predictive value of the evocative test (E.T.)
  • (20) Both are products of our current cultural moment, as we collectively salivate on the ideal of the Mad Men housewife, with its attractive evocations of easier times and simpler (less equal) roles.

Nostalgic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to nostalgia; affected with nostalgia.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I must also accept that Cameron recruits the best and the brightest, who just happen to be his schoolmates, and that education should be overhauled by a nostalgic zealot who has never taught and dismisses evidence.
  • (2) Then there were American imperialists, Turkish nostalgics for the Ottoman days and Iranians ambitious for Islamic terrorism in the Balkans.
  • (3) For a minute or two they get all nostalgic for last year’s showstopper high points.
  • (4) Yet ice cream does do something funny to a lot of us: it makes us nostalgic and happy and, if you take your cues from Bridget Jones, it helps us recover from heartbreak.
  • (5) Asked if he felt nostalgic, Obama replied: “Of course.” With those two words and his last presidential words immortalised on the web, he was out.
  • (6) "[They] actually made me feel nostalgic for Billy Crystal, something I didn't think was possible," he wrote.
  • (7) Hey, I say, when I look at this record it makes me feel nostalgic for my youth, and I didn't even write the songs, so God knows what it does for you.
  • (8) and a mother showing off her own placenta almost make one nostalgic for the days of annual round-robin newsletters.
  • (9) Even the HMC , mouthpiece of the independent sector, is reported to have spoken out against a "knee-jerk return to the nostalgic golden age of O-levels".
  • (10) Reuters Photograph: Reuters “I think one of the strengths of nostalgia is that even if they have not had a good childhood, most people have at least one nostalgic memory that they cherish and that they can use repeatedly.
  • (11) In one experiment, subjects in whom nostalgia had been induced were asked to set up a room for a meeting – those in a nostalgic frame of mind consistently set up the chairs closer than those in the control.
  • (12) To those critics who will accuse him of romanticism and nostalgia, his defiant reply is the first page of the introduction: things were better in the past, and it's not nostalgic to say so.
  • (13) "Union Jacks is all about bringing back nostalgic British classics using the best of artisanal ingredients.
  • (14) The line from New Labour nostalgics that “we won three elections” misses the point for millions.
  • (15) Adepitan has just made a powerful programme about polio in Nigeria, and it has left him both angry and nostalgic.
  • (16) (For Wilson's character, who romanticises that era, it's a dream come true – but the Parisians of the 20s are themselves nostalgic for the 1890s.
  • (17) In another experiment, those in nostalgic moods were asked to write essays, which were compared in a blind judging process with those of peers who’d had no induced feelings of nostalgia.
  • (18) When Ikea closes in the near future (as, please God, it will), will I be tweeting my nostalgic feelings about its contribution to extending allen keys and misery worldwide?
  • (19) On the left, some people seem nostalgic for the 1970s; on the right, eyes mist over at the mention of the 1990s.
  • (20) Nor does last month’s Singapore race fill the British driver with a nostalgic glow.