Sentence examples for eliciting appreciative from inspiring English sources

It happens all the time: There you are at a cocktail party holding forth, eliciting appreciative smiles and nods.

Taback's trademark hand-drawn lines create easily recognizable, vibrant creatures that will elicit appreciative oohs and aahs.

Mr. Gore then explained that "this is a partnership and she is my soulmate," a choice of words that elicited appreciative applause from the largely female audience.

At several points, a drone runs smack into a wall, eliciting an appreciative "Ooooooo!" from the audience.

Several more pieces also made it into print, eliciting some appreciative letters to the editor.

In both cases they seem a bit vulgar, more likely to elicit an appreciative "Far out!" from an adolescent boy than to command the attention of an art aficionado.

Jonny's enthralling account of the race - and his dramatic collapse at the finish - elicited some enthusiastic, appreciative comments.

In a video tribute, the actor Mickey Rourke elicited not gasps but appreciative laughter and applause in the church when he used a curse word in saying that Frazier "put the greatest who ever lived, Muhammad Ali," on his backside.

The instrument of his fury is Pougbila (Claire Ilboudo), a 16-year-old village beauty who elicits jealousy from the local girls and appreciative glances from their boyfriends.

When The History Boys was first performed at the National Theatre in 2004 the reverential cupping of a sixth former's genitals by an appreciative retirement-age teacher was enough to elicit ceaseless gales of laughter.

One final appreciative nod is due to the WNYC radio host John Schaefer, whose keen questioning during interview segments elicited enlightening responses from the performers.