Sentence examples for elicit from from inspiring English sources

"I'm trying to elicit from you what the more is".

It took several efforts to elicit from him a grumpy reaffirmation of this view.

The biographer therefore seeks to elicit from his materials the motives for his subject's actions and to discover the shape of his personality.

But in hiring Boies to elicit from Paulson a lesson in the logic of financial crises, the eighty-nine-year-old businessman may have performed a public service.

Biography, while related to history in its search for facts and its responsibility to truth, is truly a branch of literature because it seeks to elicit from facts, by selection and design, the illusion of a life actually being lived.

One sharp observer of the music scene suggested that the Met should have given its own orchestra free tickets to all these shows, so that the players could hear what style Gergiev has been trying to elicit from them.

This is the reaction that she elicits from people".

Mother elicits from Alexander that he really wants the truth.

He elicits from his subjects long, often intimate histories, recorded in their own words.

Turner doesn't noodle around with the play, and the performances she elicits from her actors feel intuitive.

The dusky melancholy he elicited from the strings in the opening Requiem and Kyrie set an effective tone of trepidation.