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call to mind
Idioms and Phrases
Remember, recall, as in I've tried but I can't call his name to mind . This idiom was first recorded in 1472.Example Sentences
These revelations are crucial to Betancourt鈥檚 argument 鈥 one of abolition and freedom 鈥 that call to mind the work of queer theorists like the late Lauren Berlant and Jos茅 Esteban Mu帽oz.
Both call to mind left-field album of the year wins by Jon Batiste in 2022 and Herbie Hancock in 2008 with jazz-oriented LPs whose commercial success was dwarfed by that of their competitors.
Just inside, Max Streicher鈥檚 鈥淨uadriga鈥 stages massive billowing horses that call to mind wingless Pegasi the way they seem to gallop through the air.
Told in four chapters over the span of a little less than 20 years, Colombian American writer-director Alessandra Lacorazza鈥檚 gorgeous feature debut may call to mind other singular indies such as 鈥淢oonlight鈥 and 鈥淎ftersun鈥 in its structure and themes, but this deceptively modest autobiographical drama is so precise and insightful that it comfortably occupies its own emotional landscape.
It's a strategy that is notably different from the one that radical veganism might call to mind: masked activists standing in a public square, confronting passersby with enlarged photographs of the cruelty that transpires on factory farms.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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