Meanings of conjure up visions in English

His work could conjure up visions, like opium visions, of a world of order and justice.

I always conjure up visions of Mrs. Gladstone in her sapphire-blue velvet, her invariable dress of ceremony.

Historian TJ Stiles said the term was adopted to conjure up visions of titanic monopolists who crushed competitors, rigged markets, and corrupted government.

Here was nothing to charm the eye or conjure up visions of past glory; nothing elegant or romantic; nothing savouring of grim warlike purposes.

Only Love knows for sure if she was intentionally conjuring up visions of Faithfull.

Already my mind was busy conjuring up visions of the fair lady of yester-eve.

Her imagination conjured up visions of her sister-in-law's future years.

It conjures up visions of casual flittings in the dark.

Anne Hathaway plays a messed-up alcoholic who conjures up visions of monsters attacking South Korea.

He conjured up visions of all sorts of disaster.

I had conjured up visions of Dido enthralled of Aeneas, of Cleopatra bending Antony to her whim.

The word has a military ring about it that conjures up visions of stern discipline and officer rank.

The name conjures up visions of grey church towers, monumental urns and the eulogies in verse beloved of Georgian poets.

My overheated brain conjured up visions of white plains of cool snow, where I might roll and allay my feverish heat.

The very use of the word liturgy conjured up visions of Catholic Mass, Popery, and the Scarlet Woman of Rome for devout Scots.

We should give no play to imagination here; for imagination is not judgment-itonly conjures up visions, inducing an unprofitable and often very painful mood.