Sentence examples for elicit anything from inspiring English sources

These days, difficult films — it seems important to add that difficult is not a pejorative — rarely elicit anything but yawns and condescension.

US largesse to Pakistan, including payments of $1.5bn a year since 2010 under the so-called "Kerry-Lugar" act, has failed to elicit anything like such a warm relationship.

Even worse is the line "sellin' the candy", a shameless appropriation of the weakest of all AFL catchphrases, one that surely couldn't elicit anything more than a begrudging smirk these days, even from the Ladbrokes Lads.

Alexis Madrigal at The Atlantic likened the chat to a "factory tour" because it did nothing to elicit anything substantive from Mr Obama.

"The idea of sharing trauma, at least for me, is not so much to elicit anything back but just to get it out of me".

Despite evoking a physiological response to enrichment, is possible that the objects were not engaging enough to elicit anything other than transient behavioral responses.

These days, Siegel suggested, only non-fiction elicited anything like the same passion.

To besmirch his name elicits anything from polite harrumphs to outright evangelism, as Bidisha discovered recently when she dared to question Othello's racial politics.

What chance does Monroe stand of eliciting anything but a curious glance – especially when her CG-eyes don't yet align?

And if television has been increasingly adept at producing anxiety ("24," "Lost," "Jericho"), it has rarely elicited anything resembling sensory fear.

It could be that torture is always morally culpable, that it never elicits anything of value – or it could be that it is dirty work that gets results.