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We're just trying to elicit some kind of response".
Even so, that work is designed to elicit some kind of emotional or visceral response and it remains the job of the critic to try and express that response in the best available words.
It's for that reason that the mediocre is worse than the bad — at least terrible cultural objects elicit some kind of response.
A closely related idea is that violations of convention elicit some kind of sanction, such as tangible punishment or, more commonly, negative reactive attitudes.
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"It had to be a body, and it had to be a body that elicited some kind of kinesthetic relationship from the dancers, in the same way that when you stand next to another body you get an energy and a charge and information from it," he says.
In contrast to sham coils, this kind of sham stimulation does not induce a sufficiently strong magnetic field in the brain tissue to evoke any biological response but is still eliciting some kind of skull sensation.
Jewish-mother jokes, the synthesized sound of squealing brakes, invective against selfishness — all were met by the same half-hearted laughter, seemingly elicited by some kind of semantic code for comedy, rather than by actual humor.
But, the argument goes, this emphasis overlooks a distinct enforcement mechanism: non-conformity elicits some kind of sanction from other people.
Finding one latched onto your ankle like some kind of pimple-insect hybid elicits an entirely unique kind of shudder.
So everything we do is intended to elicit that kind of fun".
"Whatever it takes to elicit that kind of response from them, I'm willing to do".
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