Word: elicitation
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Conversational critics of public education are willing to express dissatisfaction with schools, but few can be prodded into proposing and expounding upon reform ideas. Suggest taking on a classroom for a year to them and you'll probably elicit a predictable response: hearty laughter as if the proposal was a joke. Even though education should be an all-encompassing investment, one in which every citizen nurtures, encourages and excites children by the process of learning, parents and the public at large rarely have a meaningful reciprocal relationship with the public school environment...
...failed Statistics, didn't get an interview with Morgan Stanley and your boyfriend took a permanent vacation. Complaints by students "feeling depressed" often elicit a range of peer responses ranging from stigma to careless dismissal, but few can say they consider these comments symptoms of a serious medical condition requiring treatment...
Attempting to elicit an emotional response from his audience, McGuinness repeatedly compared the situation in Ireland to South Africa's apartheid government...
...this country--which restricts highway funding if states do not comply--does nothing to change the cultural mores of college students. It merely forces an entirely legitimate pastime underground. Finally, the Congressional law prohibiting campus administrators from taking a softer line toward responsible drinking is endangering students by driving elicit drinking even farther from those who might provide help...
...fulfilling logical legal setup is mired in the Chinese-English conglomeration to be easily understood. The end sequence consists of swirling and complicated plot ideas, none properly explained (at least not in English). Although the punchline of the scene is suitably shocking and unexpected, it will elicit more of a "Huh?" than a satisfied...