Word: elicitation
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...Amphitryon’s much-maligned slave Sosia. A dim-witted but earnest fellow, Ashmanskas’ Sosia reacts to his mistreatment at the hands of Mercury (and then practically everyone else in the play) with a bafflement and foolhardiness worthy of a character like Goofy. His attempts to elicit laughter from the audience with overwrought physical antics, while they might be successful with a younger crowd, are almost painful to watch given the Huntington’s somewhat mature clientele...
...thought that it would elicit my views on teaching and writing. I thought that I would talk about motherhood," Morrison said. "I thought that I would talk about Gerard Manley Hopkins or about how poverty is romanticized in American culture...
...kind of information with which you burden strangers. I recognize the self-indulgence in writing it. Even in telling my friends why I was grumpy or having a bad week, there was a minute calculation. How to say it, how to shrug one's shoulders. How to elicit their concern without their pity, and then assure them that it really is okay, so as not to break up the conversation. It is not that my friends are uncaring. It's not even that strangers are cold. They simply do not know the part of me that has been hurt...
...agencies, since local police say they rarely have the information necessary for that kind of sleuthing. And restaveks, who know most cops in Haiti to be brutal and corrupt, are generally loath to approach police in the U.S. Plus, they fear that turning in their captors to authorities may elicit reprisals...
...With demonstrated executive leadership and the strong ability to elicit support for the University, he is remarkably well-prepared to lead Goergetown," he added...