Word: elicits
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Ultimately however, the failing of Paxton’s efforts lies in the thinness of his material. His first film is noteworthy in that it is one of the few horror flicks to use children as more than token set-pieces to elicit terror from an audience, but it at times feels like Paxton is trying to stretch the skin of an hour-long episode onto the frame of a full-length feature. Frailty doesn’t delve into the father’s psyche, leaving the psychology out of the thriller, and uses one huge leap of improbable...
Graham and her allies were worried Harvard would encroach deeper into their neighborhood. They had been aiming to elicit a promise that the University’s expansion would not cross Putnam Avenue—a major thoroughfare that runs through Riverside two blocks in from Memorial Drive...
...Greatest Show On Earth: There are animals, of course, walking improbably on their hind legs, but it's humans who elicit the held breath at the 132nd Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus. In a computer-generated age, there's an odd thrill in seeing a real person do the undoable, like leap through a ring of flaming knives blindfolded. And the cheeky audience-participation antics of David Larible, above, make clowns seem almost hip. Almost...
...limitations, the best efforts of an analyst will be worthless. Second, Herring focused on developing internal sources of information: Motorola employees who could accumulate critical data about competitors or the marketplace in the course of their everyday jobs. Herring taught key employees around the world how to casually elicit useful information from unwitting sources and then encouraged them to pass the information to the CI department so it could be analyzed and delivered to Motorola executives in the department's regular reports. In 1985 Motorola employees in Japan learned off-hand--over drinks--from their NEC counterparts that poor communication...
...never wants to deal with a drugstore clerk smirking at my prints in the back room again. If I encounter something picturesque--say, a grizzly chasing campers in front of a charming waterfall--my dream is to casually pull from my shirt pocket a digital camera cool enough to elicit gasps of awe from the campers and, if possible, from the bear...