conjure someone/something up

conjure | American Dictionary

conjure
verb[ T ]
us/ˈkɑn·dʒər/
to make something appear by magic or as if by magic:
[ T ]His words conjured images of far-away action.

Examples of conjure

conjure
According to him, language had power over the abstract, but cinema and radio were better equipped to conjure it up.
It is also a multicultural invention that conjures a cultural calendar to subdue the irregularities of nature.
But the city he conjures up in that sonnet is sleeping and silent, and there are no magical bells to summon him back there.
The term four-track tape conjures up images of home recordings, lo-fi analogue (as opposed to digital) sound and overall (inferior) demo-quality production.
The right to assistance, in turn, conjured up images of impersonal bureaucracy.
The unattained completeness he conjures with play - and by building a miniature universe for himself.
It is easy to conjure up a number of alternative scenarios.
Images, words and music were used to conjure up each other, all to the effect of moving the emotions of the audience.
First, 'revival': the past is conjured up, brought into the present, re-configured.
The primitivists, of course, did not conjure with any such picture.
Each one described the image that the word widow conjured up for her.
Rather, he conjured with the loss that the ending of the representations of mind, which gave meaning to his life, would entail.
His book was not primarily about "recapturing the past" but about conjuring up an image of the past that would be persuasive in the present.
They bring to the photographic milieu some of the energy that the live acts conjured directly.
Another convention was the infernal invocation, in which spirits were conjured up to assist in carrying out a plan or to thwart someone's actions.
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