Sentence examples for to elicit something from inspiring English sources

The draw for the Thursday-Friday rounds had just been released and two wily Fleet Streeters, noting that Anthony Kim would be playing with McIlroy, were trying to elicit something juicy and headline-worthy.

"When Chuck approaches a hearing, he wants to elicit something, leave a mark, unearth something that the A.P. will file a story on," a Schumer staffer from this era told me.

Later in the day, Gregory Parkinson, who showed a small collection on mannequins at the Linda Dresner boutique on Park Avenue, left one with a glimmer of hope for fashion's ability to elicit something close to emotion.

The movie begins in medias neurosis, with Spielrein, visibly distraught, rocking back and forth, making faces, and touching herself in peculiar ways as Jung patiently tries to elicit something coherent from her disconnected utterances.

Should the person comment further, trying to elicit something more from you, simply repeat the phrase: "As I've already said, you'll be the first to know of any news".

After the financial system led the world into recession, the City of London and its peers now elicit something more like a love-hate — or hate-love — relationship.

However, making suitable decisions requires that the preferences of a specific user for different configurations be articulated or elicited, something generally acknowledged to be onerous.

"I used to hear you at Bradley's," he told Mr. Barron, referring to the dearly missed Greenwich Village piano haunt, and eliciting something like a collective sigh in the room.

But then there's "Blue Car," a Greg Brown tune in blues form, which elicits something you'd almost hesitate to call a performance.

The first query elicited something near unanimity.

She elicits something like awe in young swimmers.