It's easy to suspect that Grubman offers this information to elicit sympathy.

This spin is an attempt to elicit sympathy and to excuse his actions.

Beyond that, the biggest problem might be that polygamy does not elicit sympathy.

Valya kept her eyes down, a deliberate attempt to elicit sympathy.

Yet she hoped the seriousness of the situation would elicit sympathy and cooperation from Bennett.

Even today, Armstrong is still trying to elicit sympathy.

It's nothing new for public figures to use their kin to elicit sympathy for a cause.

She ignores his attempts to elicit sympathy.

It is used to elicit sympathy or imply that the audience has a close relationship with or privileged access to the subject.

But rather than elicit sympathy, the photos instead sparked rumours that the actress had gone under the knife for a nose job.

But even behind all the despisers of conventional Christian art, we have at least a sufficiently human figure to elicit sympathy, compassion and love.

He is sick, and in the grips of a snuffling, rasping, hacking cough that should elicit sympathy, but merely manages to irritate beyond belief.

Alex Ferguson isn't a man who often elicits sympathy.

But that vulnerability hardly elicits sympathy.

This thought changed her greatly in his mind; not eliciting sympathy, exactly, but a mild relief, at least, of his unease.

"The bandage is just to elicit sympathy now." She tried to smile, but failed.