Word: elicitation
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...comic opera. Unfortunately, the acting is not always so successful, at least it is not up to the calibre of the singing. In the title roles of the two primi gondolieri and pretenders to the throne of Barataria, Bruce Macdonald and George Brown both sing remarkably well and elicit a great deal of satire from their acting. Neither of the pair strikes one as of the gondoliering or the regal type, but this only serves to heighten the humor...
Silverstein has been careful to elicit from the refined men in the play aptly elegant deportment and diction. They show a delightful preciosity by pronouncing with a pure s-sound instead of an sh-sound all such words as "appreciate," "profession," "politicians" and "demonstration." And even the word "exquisite" is correctly accented on the first syllable...
...Internal Security subcommittee called her in for more questioning. With advice of counsel, Mary Knowles invoked the First Amendment, refused to answer such questions as: "Did you, or do you, know Herbert Philbrick?" on the further grounds that they pried into her private thoughts and were meant, not to elicit pertinent information, but only to humiliate her. Last fall Mary Knowles was indicted for contempt of Congress...
...adult life of our society while at the same time the complexities of that society steadily and inexorably multiply. In particular the call for individuals of increased insight, wider knowledge, firmer direction, and all the other qualities of mind and will which it is the colleges' chief purpose to elicit becomes ever more insistent. In the face of this already vast and enlarging obligation an educational institution needs constantly to be asking itself whether its practices are good enough to ensure that it is doing and is equipped to do what is expected...
Joyce White's Svanhild was too reginal and cold to elicit sufficiently ardent passion to make her choose between a temporary lover and a permanent husband; but she has a pleasing voice. She should learn to control her unconscious mannerism of underlining important words with little negative twitches of the head. As her sister, Anna Hunt was colorless; her voice, though musical, lacked conviction. Their mother, as played by Jen Karabel, needed force; her mezzo-piano voice was not up to the two fortissimo outbursts demanded...