Sentence examples for eliciting her from inspiring English sources

Eliciting her mother's tales of escape from Poland and deportation to Auschwitz, of her grandparents' religious devotion and her father's flight to secularism, Akerman enfolds vast currents of history in a prodigal daughter's tale of concern for an ailing parent.

"Why don't we enter the yards, Jackie?" a neighbor, Robert Duffield, asked his wife, eliciting her well-primed answer: "Because," she said, "this is Texas and you might get shot".

"Mmmmm," I would say, smacking my lips loudly and pretending to chew in hopes of eliciting her brightly dimpled smile.

Siegel elicited her embarrassed fantasies about an intense, dominating lover to whom she could submit.

After 16 years spent trying, Walt heals her troubled soul, elicits her consent and delivers a big-screen classic.

Ms. Sklar-Weinstein explained that it is from the combination of all of these elements that she elicits her meaning.

(When I tried to elicit her opinion about the novels of one of her contemporaries, she said, "I hear the movie is fab," and turned away).

A few quick questions will elicit her real interest in animals, then in elephants, and finally the reproductive cycles of elephants.

They elicited her name and address from a dorm friend, so that the next day, when, presumably, the woman would be sober and aware, they could serve her with a summons for under-age drinking.

Will, whom her parents wrongly assume to be the father, stows away on the truck, intending to confront her, elicit her confession and clear his name once they reach their destination.

The Weill segment, which embraced everything from the composer's corrosive collaborations with Bertolt Brecht to the autumnal ballads he wrote with Maxwell Anderson, stretched Ms. Schneider even further and elicited her most original ideas.