Word: elicit
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...faculty to improve the quality of learning in FAS. For several years we have posted a variety of forms and templates for “early evaluations,” written and electronic, on our web site. These are used at the discretion of course heads and TFs to elicit student input about the progress of the course and the way it is taught. In addition, we have long been involved in helping faculty and TFs interpret CUE data from their courses, and in assisting in facilitating tactful, creative means for students to be heard on these matters. These...
...small sampling of Faust’s bibliography will unavoidably elicit snickers from those outside the confines of the Academy: “The Rhetoric and Ritual of Agriculture in Antebellum South Carolina,” “The Civil War Soldier and the Art of Dying,” and the above-mentioned “Altars of Sacrifice...
...Heck, I just got elected in 2004," he told me last summer. "I've got to make this energy thing work in Montana first." In fact, the real flaw in the Rocky Mountain Blue electoral fantasies is that the Democrats' leading candidates, especially the junior Senator from New York, elicit groans in the Rockies. "I just don't get this Obama thing, either," says Orbanek, the Grand Junction newspaper publisher. New Mexico's popular Latino Governor Bill Richardson will probably try in 2008, but Richardson has spent most of his career in Washington and sometimes tries a bit too hard...
...Heck, I just got elected in 2004," he told me last summer. "I've got to make this energy thing work in Montana first." In fact, the real flaw in the Rocky Mountain Blue electoral fantasies is that the Democrats' leading candidates, especially the junior Senator from New York, elicit groans in the Rockies. "I just don't get this Obama thing, either," says Orbanek, the Grand Junction newspaper publisher. New Mexico's popular Latino Governor Bill Richardson will probably try in 2008, but Richardson has spent most of his career in Washington and sometimes tries a bit too hard...
Fortunately the record is a beautifully grotesque creation, one that Swan Lake’s members could never have devised on their own. Together, they form a disfigured, fucked-up beast whose aching, thickly-layered moans elicit both shock and pathos...