Sentence examples for elicits hard from inspiring English sources

This usually elicits hard laughs and perplexed looks as people realize I'm not joking.

The gesture was appreciated by some; from others it elicited hard stares.

Negotiating with sexual desire, strong as ever, though it less reliably elicits a hard-on to fulfill it.

Maybe that's the problem: the budget debate seems to elicit less hard news analysis than political framing and reframing.

With PTSD, a shocking combat situation elicits a hard-wired fear response — the flight-or-fight reaction — with intense emotional arousal and a surge of norepinephrine in the brain.

Whichever line would elicit the hardest, loudest, and lengthiest laugh would be named Seinfeld's funniest joke, and by way of the 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll results, the funniest joke in sitcom history.

A chat with Norman Lamb, until recently Hunt's ministerial colleague, elicits a few hard truths the health secretary will inevitably have to confront.

Even the cold night and hard ground elicited mainly philosophical shrugs.

Maggie also had a hard time eliciting empathy from Molly, who lost a baby of her own.

The mirror might do that, but the question will be, 'What kind of memory association will their body elicit?' And that is hard to know beforehand.

After the jury had left for the day, Mr. Shapiro complained to Judge Millette that the prosecution seemed to be trying hard to elicit powerful shows of emotion from its witnesses in an effort to sway the jury against Mr. Muhammad.