conjure someone/something up

Examples of conjured

conjured

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The right to assistance, in turn, conjured up images of impersonal bureaucracy.
First, 'revival': the past is conjured up, brought into the present, re-configured.
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.
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.
So visions are immediately conjured up of sunglasses and peeling bodies lying on beaches and that kind of thing.
For others, however, the word has conjured up deprivation, disaster, and doom.
Paratactic discourses familiar to students of modernism and post-modernism are brilliantly conjured from the preoccupations of eighteenth-century epistemology and political discourse.
What melts into the past at the opera's close, then, was a conjured well-being from the beginning.
The show had "conjured up a vision of commodities and banished from sight the reality of their exchange" (38).
The word conjured up fears of the most violent and irrational imaginable challenge to the entire established social order.
Yet when horses were everywhere the sound conjured up no such nostalgic images.
In sum, supernatural agents are readily conjured up because natural selection has trip-wired cognitive schema for agency detection in the face of uncertainty.
Meanings are conjured from them, and are inevitably conditioned by the context in which they are produced.
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