Eliciting

The poor poets epistles are exhibited, but the epistles he receives are kept out of sight, though such epistles perhaps were the chief agents in eliciting the very thoughts and diction of his own. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Having asked various questions, I have not been my usual forensic self in eliciting answers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

DGA President, Taylor Hackford said, “television directors play a crucial role in eliciting performance, advancing the story and establishing the look and feel in all genres of television”. ❋ Unknown (2010)

(Rick Warren certainly had an agenda on Saturday at CamelbackSaddleback, but he seemed more interested in eliciting information from the candidates than the too-knowing 'pros' and -- blissfully -- he seemed entirely uninterested in playing gotcha.) ❋ Unknown (2008)

Identifying which mercado would go a long way in eliciting a useful answer. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A novel of rich emotional depth, Winterkill succeeds in eliciting sympathy and understanding for its unusual characters. ❋ Unknown (2002)

And do most horror films succeed or fail in eliciting the right degree of thrills and chills? ❋ Unknown (2002)

That is why she has succeeded in eliciting beautiful secrets from fairy tales, living folk legends, and saints 'stories; secrets that had been hidden from the wordly-wise but which true simplicity perceives because, as the poet has the old grandmother say, it ❋ Unknown (1909)

Professor Cairnsley came along the line he was gradually eliciting from the terrified class the superficial points which were more or less common to all philosophers. ❋ Unknown (1903)

"Khel koi bhi ho … jeetna aana chaahiye," he translated it in Hindi, eliciting wild cheers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Isn’t torture supposed to be 100% effective in eliciting information? ❋ Unknown (2010)

My name is Jimmy, "I said in Japanese, eliciting laughter from my mispronounced words. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He was modest and docile and patient and amused, above all he was quite thrilled -- thrilled with the idea of eliciting a note of appreciation so late in the day. ❋ Henry James (1879)

I’m interested to see the wording of the questions that are described as eliciting the number of “unwanted [sexual] experience[s]” to see if they are similar to the Schuckman and Johnson questions. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Winning over a skeptical audience is the ultimate test of any writer, whether a novelist eliciting sympathy for a flawed character or an essayist driving home a controversial point. ❋ Adam Freedman (2011)

Pain can be inflicted for a variety of other reasons - in SERE training, during surgery, as part of a religious ritual, for disciplinary purposes, for corporal punishment, for sexual purposes, etc. - and we could debate the rights and wrongs of those, but they are completely irrelevant to the question of whether eliciting information by means of severe pain is acceptable or not. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Every single pro-torture commenter since I last visited this thread has presupposed without evidence that torture is more effective than other interrogation techniques at eliciting reliable information. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Then, just as quickly, Rinn jerked the rope to a stop again, the thump of the abrupt halt eliciting a long, low groan of pain from above. ❋ Gerard O’Donovan (2011)

He did it a second time, this time letting the thick head of his cock part the lips of my sex just enough to let the head brush against my clit, eliciting a moan from me. ❋ Jill Myles (2011)

The bear advanced, eliciting a snarl from the wolf. ❋ Molly Harper (2011)

Her remarks elicited [cheers] ❋ Adrealveto (2011)

metaphor elicitation = [symbol] = [meaning] = representation = [wtf]. ❋ Luckyduck5 (2011)

"I say [old chap]! Two neutrons are walking down the street when one proceeds to say to the other, 'I think I've lost an [electron]!' The other [ponders] that and enquires, 'Are you sure?' to which the first responds, 'I'm positive!'" "That elicited a real laugh." ❋ Rupert Lavesque (2008)