Sentences with phrase «asking rhetorical questions»

In November 2009, in the wake of the first release of Climategate documents, I found myself asking rhetorical questions:

It's a good way to write op - eds asking rhetorical questions, though.

(I just enjoy asking rhetorical questions.

When will I stop asking rhetorical questions?

Running 1 - 5 minutes apiece, they're all remixes of the same glorified trailer, asking rhetorical questions about the premise of Transcendence and answering them with the movie's release date.

Jesus asks the rhetorical question, «Were they worse sinners than all the rest?»

I've asked this rhetorical question already, but I think it bears repeating: When you tell children that god / Jesus loves them, do you also tell them that after they grow up they will go to hell if they do not worship this christian god?

At a New Mexico rally, when McCain asked the rhetorical question — «Who is the real Barack Obama?»

I could ask the rhetorical question about what have the Romans ever done for us, but that little ditty was already played out earlier today

There is a certain irony in the fact that every single time a world record is broken in the pool during the current World Swimming Championships, Freddie Mercury's voice echoes around the Foro Italico, asking a rhetorical question that

Using Kadyrov's evolution as an example, Efremov asks a rhetorical question: «Can you imagine how much (Bin Laden) would like it if he attended the White House for a lunch or if he had interviews with Paris Hilton?»

Buffalo Common Councilmember Bonnie Russell asked the rhetorical question as she approached the assembled media outside Buffalo's City Hall.

LIVERPOOL, N.Y. — During a public meeting about government consolidation Tuesday night, one of the presenters asked a rhetorical question: Does the government we designed 200 years ago still fit today's needs?

For instance, in the 4th paragraph, the editorial asks a rhetorical question: What has human right got to do with the dress code adopted by organisations?

A fellow critic asked the rhetorical question, «does latest Avengers live up to the hype».

A woman I met in Abassan village asked me a rhetorical question: «Do you sleep with your shoes on?»

But I asked the rhetorical question: «C'm on... don't shareholders know management have houses to buy, and cellars to fill?

Can I ask you a rhetorical question about yourself?

When I come home and find something amiss in the house and ask the rhetorical question, «Who did this?»

She asks the rhetorical question (I paraphrase), Why do we still go to conferences when there are so many media to bring them to us.

Well, if you don't know the answer, why ask the rhetorical question in the first place?

I just pt this link up and ask the rhetorical question if you think this person knows how many barrels are produced in a single day globally, say withing 15 MILLION BARRELS a day???

Then in 2009 when the temperature plateau became too obvious to ignore, Knight et al. (2009), in a report on climate by the American Meteorological Society, asked the rhetorical question «Do global temperature trends over the last decade falsify climate predictions?»

It sounds to me that you are asking a rhetorical question and are being argumentative rather than genuinely inquisitive.

Then she asks the rhetorical question: «A result of climate change?»

It's also useful to modulate your voice when asking a rhetorical question or punching a key point.

These are the obstacles I was thinking of when I asked the rhetorical question: «How do I turn this technology into an asset in our classrooms??

Part of me is tempted to ask the rhetorical question of «do you eat?»

Sometimes they will ask rhetorical questions that tries to catch their partner in a contradiction, and sometimes they will simply seek to undermine the validity of the other person's emotions by suggesting that there is a rational or logical solution to the complaint the partner is voicing.

Not exact matches

From the interrobang (a question mark and exclamation point superimposed, to ask a shocking question, proposed in 1962) to the percontation point (a backward question mark, for rhetorical questions, suggested in 1580), new glyphs have arrived and departed.

In a presentation to the Columbia Business school he asks questions real and rhetorical to keep the audience engaged, and he looks at the next ppt slide briefly then turns to explain the top takeaway vs. the usual verbatim read along that the WSJ dubbed «corporate karaoke!»

Asking a search marketer for his opinion on Google's Quality Score (QS) is pretty much a rhetorical question — we all dislike it.

I asked questions, largely rhetorical, due to my initial reluctance to do anything.

I have asked questions, and they are rhetorical?

Undoubtedly you sense that I ask that as a rhetorical question.

I don't think the various Gospel authors had Jesus asking question to show he did not know, nor to say «my peace is in the questions» but instead as a mere rhetorical tool to make a point and tell what he thought the answers were.

I'm not trying to be hateful, nor am I asking a simple rhetorical question, but how do those who do not believe in God explain existence?

We can not avoid raising this question, but the moment it is asked it is seen to be rhetorical.

God asks Moses the rhetorical question, «Is the LORD» power limited?»

2:10 asks the question which introduces the new dimension; and it is interesting to note that the question is itself preceded by two rhetorical questions which at once are addressed to and define the covenant community: «Have we not all one father?

There is this rhetorical question ask by arsenal fans frequently on this site.

I suppose you are asking that as a rhetorical question.

The obviouis question, though a rhetorical one, is to ask WHO buys, keeps and trusts and plays those players who Gilberto (and countless other Gooners too) considers not good enough.

If I were to ask which two has been the best among the 3 then it would only be a rhetorical question.

Almost every Premier League fan must have asked or heard this rhetorical question at least once in the last few years.

These days, we get Henry Porter writing about how he refused to eat in a curry house that happened to be within the same postcode as a CCTV camera, and stormed out in high dudgeon, scattering onion bhajis and asking outraged rhetorical questions about whether Magna Carta had died in vain in his wake.

Obviously this is a rhetorical question I'm asking because clearly I can wear whatever I like, I mean I am a grown up after all!

There's a rhetorical question Another Year never directly asks, but if you need an answer, just consider the choice of season with which the film ends.

Last week, GoodeReader posed a rhetorical question, essentially asking why so many individuals and organizations have voiced their opinions in favor of Apple and several publishers who have been accused of colluding on ebook prices in order to drive consumer traffic away from Amazon.

I asked and answered a provocative, and rhetorical, question the other day, and it engendered some strong responses.