Word: elicit
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...many who bemoan the evils of abortion, including the author of a recent editorial in these pages, a common tactic to elicit sympathy for their cause is employing harrowing imagery of the abortion itself. They talk, for example, of sharp hooks ladling the fetus out of the womb. Such an image tugs on any reader’s heartstrings; no one wants to see a baby impaled on a sharp hook. The problem is, however, that this picture is a gross misrepresentation of reality: the majority of abortions are performed in the first trimester with a vacuum-like device?...
...role has been to facilitate discussion and to elicit deep, deep thinking,” Steinberg said. “The decision mirrors and reflects the pulse of the community. I don’t regard it as my decision...
...Polite controversy is just about the highest emotion generated by the royal family. They don't inspire wrath; nor do they elicit much warmth. "They live in a different world," says 25-year-old housewife Mayumi Masuoka. "How could this possibly have any significant impact?" If they're off the radar screens of most Japanese, that's intentional. The royals have studiously avoided the spotlight and maintained a deliberate distance ever since the end of World War II. They aren't jet-setting royals who play on the beaches of the Riviera or date dashing polo players. They...
...despite these quibbles, Urinetown is consistently funny, not only in ways that elicit immediate belly laughs, but also more thoughtful delayed laughter, as well as a lasting grin of appreciation. The entire tone of the show is refreshingly irreverent. That’s a word that’s overused and misapplied quite a bit, but perhaps no term better describes the show’s delight in exploiting all things serious in a world in which serious appears altogether too prevalent...
...high command of the U.S. military, that was enough to elicit a few sighs of relief. The U.S. had yearned for a battlefield victory in Afghanistan that would vindicate five weeks of aerial attacks, bolster confidence in the Pentagon's strategy and puncture some of the Taliban's swelling resolve before winter sets in. While the Alliance's siege of Mazar may not have satisfied all those aims, it did give the U.S. campaign a welcome adrenaline jolt. And its significance ran deeper: in its quick betrayals and shifting tempo, primitive clashes and unanticipated results, the battle for Mazar...