Word: elicited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...absence of balance and a conspicuous lack of preparedness marked the Vivaldi. Trampler could only elicit a thin, bare sound from his period instrument even in the most declamatory of the solo passages. Metamorphosen dutifully played the accompaniment--an unusually sharp and pointed one--at exceedingly low volume while Trampler edged along, often missing articulations and intonations. The tuttis, however, brought the booming force of more modern string instruments to bear against Trampler's tiny sound in an almost embarrassing contrast...
What has happened to our normally terse Vice-President to elicit such a reaction? Did he fall off his crutches? Is he reacting to the Republican takeover...
Senior members of the U.S. delegation even thought they had figured out how to elicit such statements. They invited onto the press plane an Israeli journalist who, at the news conference scheduled to be held in Assad's marble palace, could be expected to ask a leading question. The ploy backfired. When the journalist asked Assad whether he might ease Israeli fears by opening direct talks or visiting the country, Assad coldly turned aside the chance to offer reassurance, saying instead that one country's security concerns were no excuse for holding on to another country's territory...
This film might have been more successful if it built tension and climax by creating conflict out of the relationships of normal people. Because most of the characters are not rational, it is difficult to elicit meaning from their machinations. The net result is that the audience sympathizes with none of the characters, save the late father...
Inevitably, there are criticisms. One is that the absence of women among the study's directors could have skewed the questions. Doubts have also been raised about whether personal interviews could elicit truly candid answers to intimate questions. In addition, the sample is too small to look in detail at some groups, like homosexuals. But their careful work, the team writes, "has convinced us that this sample is an excellent one from which we can make generalizations about sex in America." And, they emphasize, "we do so with confidence...