Sentence examples for calculated to elicit from inspiring English sources
The images are more and more calculated to elicit an emotional response.
They were calculated to elicit a hot response from both his zealots and opponents and by doing so generate massive amounts of media coverage.
He's every newsroom's resident incorrigible, the star of outrageous anecdotes calculated to elicit sighs of "What a guy!" Power women of grit and intelligence drift in and out of the proceedings, but Cowell's perspective is unapologetically testosterone-driven.
The Court said the question whether the Justice Department's "functions were being properly discharged or being neglected or misdirected...concerned a subject on which legislation could be had and would be materially aided by the information which the investigation was calculated to elicit".
On a separate day subjects underwent a submaximal incremental treadmill test at 5.5 km.h−1, with an initial gradient calculated to elicit an oxygen uptake of ∼40% VO2max.
Following this bolus, participants remained rested for 60 min, before commencing 45 min of treadmill running at a speed calculated to elicit 70%% of VO2max.
There are personal reminiscences, Yiddish theater history and family fun — all calculated to evoke nostalgia, elicit a tear and provoke a laugh.
Yet, the advanced contemporary composers of the time considered the work hopelessly derivative, and disdained the very qualities in the score that made it popular: lushly tonal harmonic language, sumptuous melodic writing, a traditional operatic structure complete with set-piece ensembles, highly charged dramatic recitative and arias calculated to stop the show and elicit applause.
The minimal concentration necessary to elicit 50%% of the cytotoxic effect (IC50) was calculated to be 948 μM at 24 h similar to 964 μM whether the medium was replaced with fresh medium at 4 h after oxidant addition.
Infrared energy calculated to produce a change of as little as 0.003 °C (0.005 °F) at the nerve endings elicits a significant dynamic increase in impulse frequency; cooling produces an inhibition of the resting discharge.
This feels calculated to me.
