Sentence examples for elicited nothing from inspiring English sources
A solid afternoon's worth of efforts to elicit tidbits about his golf game elicited nothing.
Bolt, Jamaica's wunderkind, surged so far ahead of a stellar Olympic final field that his last 50 meters elicited nothing but awe.
Police officers at the site seemed relaxed: venturing too close to the cordoned-off area elicited nothing more than a brisk wave.
Winston Churchill's oft-repeated statement about how he had nothing to offer but "blood, toil, tears and sweat" would have elicited nothing but puzzlement had he replaced that quartet of short nouns with the synonyms vermeil, moiling, delacrimation and sudorification.
But for every one of those, there were hapless interviews that elicited nothing meaningful from people including Noam Chomsky, Roger Scruton and – to give a measure of the strange, unfocused nature of it all – Bez (formerly of Happy Mondays, now an anti-fracker and believer in "free public transport, free food, absolutely everything really"), all accompanied by Smith's nervous, grating laughter.
Two months ago, that statement would have elicited nothing but a big old belly laugh from just about anyone who pays any attention to politics.
Mr Brown tells their stories well, for the most part, but he elicits nothing from them that is not familiar.In this section To believe or not to believe The perils of prediction Shopping v politics Brown's heroes Their majesties Dutch treat Reprints Related items Tony Blair: What I've learnedMay 31st 2007The eighth choice, Robert Kennedy, is more puzzling.
An announcer introduces King and, as always, boos break out, eliciting nothing but a broad grin from the man.
It's gotten so bad, in fact, that a stupid remark from a politician elicits nothing but an eye-roll.
Ms. Soo Hoo who spent a good deal of her cross-examination eliciting nothing from Ms. Palazzo but the recollection that she'd worked for Mr. Pellicano, slept with Mr. Turner and talked to the government, tried unsuccessfully to refresh Ms. Palazzo's recollection about the matter of Mr. Turner's alleged wiretapping.
Now, if you present this critique to Republicans in your family or network of friends, it is very likely that you will elicit nothing but rants and raves about Obama and debt, about how the country will soon be worse than Greece, and about how "government" should not have a role in our lives.
