Word: elicit
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...with spirited ease, Chaplin made his welcome appearance as a good old tramp in Easy Street. The inclusion of the films provided a crucial context to the music. Written entirely for the action in the film, the Easy Street music imbued the scenes with life and helped elicit smiles during the more endearing sequences...
Clearly, this website wants us to be skeptical about the war, but it doesn’t go far enough in making people think critically about the conflict. Sure, it mocks the oil aspect of the war, but this lampoon adds little substance to the debate. The way to elicit sober reflection about the conflict is to force every American to bet on these four fundamental propositions...
...current pre-war climate, the exhibit may elicit diverse, even contrary responses. For some, the painting and lithographs may once again create a militaristic climate. For others, the exhibit may animate visions of the horrors of war and contribute to anti-war sentiments...
Unfortunately, there are more questions than answers. For example, why did the enormous phallus—which had life-like veins, a urethral bulge, and a sizeable scrotum—elicit such iconoclastic fanaticism? And how could students who are normally so respectful of public art forms and self-expression react so violently to a harmless ice-covered phallus in their midst...
...dealing with couples—six of its senior faculty members are paired off—the presence of a figure more proximate to the president than anyone and yet constrained by professional boundaries to act otherwise can be a recipe for awkwardness at best and, at times, elicit allegations of irreconcilable conflicts of interest. The department’s other couples—Jorie Graham and Peter Sacks, Barbara Johnson and Marjorie Garber, and Philip Fisher and Elaine Scarry—have all proved their professionalism and independence in the open forum of department meetings, their colleagues...