While I can adeptly elicit my students' neediness and neuroses, it can be hard to find the right balance of humiliation and humility myself.
I do, however, act masculine when around straight men, because they elicit my masculine side, and not in a hypermasculine, let's one-up each other type of way.
"It was he," she wrote in her autobiography, "who had a decisive influence on the course of my life, both by transmitting to me a part of his genes and eliciting my admiration for his tenacity, energy and ingenuity; and, at the same time, by provoking my silent disapproval of other aspects of his personality and behaviour".
Being around gay, more effeminate men, elicits my more stereotypically feminine attributes.
Now the very mention of Cunégonde elicits my mother's warm and hearty laugh.
But before I respond to Mr. Huckabee -- a man for whom I have much respect -- let me first tell you why Ms. Portman elicited my praise.
While some random, mouth-breathing asshole on the street who calls me "baby" elicits my ire, if a man I respect (or at the very least, tolerate in the slightest) shows even the suggestion of an interest in me, I run to him like a dog to its master.
But the skepticism elicited by my response caused me to wonder if perhaps I wasn't being completely honest with audiences or myself.
Her statement is elicited by my curiosity about the significance of a musical tale of a Christian evangelist in a time when Pew studies declare the younger generations "more spiritual than religious" and people are leaving churches, and organized religion in general, in droves.
Because it is the physical, electrical synchrony of all those different brain regions working together at the same time that elicits an "OH MY GLOB" moment of a novel, pleasurable stimulus experience.
However, I was exposed as a kid to the extreme emotions opera can elicit, thanks to my mother, who for many years informed her children that when she died we were to scatter her ashes at the Met — where, exactly, it was never clear, maybe that little glade between the Met and the Henry Moore sculpture.
