Sentences with phrase «rhetorical question from»

Often this tension was felt to have been so painful that one or another heretic sought to suppress either the Hebrew or the Hellenic element, as with the efforts of the second «century Marcion to get the Church to excise the Old Testament from the Christian Bible, or, from the opposite side, the sneering rhetorical question from the puritanical pen of the early «third «century Tertullian, «What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?»

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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.

So when Jesus says that we must be born of Water and Spirit, and if you believe and are baptized you will be saved, I agree with you that in a strict sense God does the saving and we need only immerse (baptize) ourselves in the grace he offers us, I believe that the statement Jesus made about marriage to be applicable, «Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate» and echo Peter's rhetorical question, «Can anyone keep these people from being baptized with water?

Victoria Ayling, Ukip's parliamentary candidate for Great Grimsby in Lincolnshire, posed the rhetorical question during a Question Time - style debate in Cleethorpes this week, prompting «guffawing» from the audience, according to a local newspaperquestion during a Question Time - style debate in Cleethorpes this week, prompting «guffawing» from the audience, according to a local newspaperQuestion Time - style debate in Cleethorpes this week, prompting «guffawing» from the audience, according to a local newspaper report.

Today, speaking on the steps of City Hall, Quinn posed a rhetorical question to the reporters gathered before her: «What have these two men done since their fall from grace to make it clear to women — and men for that matter — that their selfish, dishonest ways are behind them?»

Well, I can answer that rhetorical question: For an interplanetary nail - biter, it's largely devoid of actual suspense, and its much - vaunted sense of humor consists primarily of cutesy faux - irreverence and dad jokes (apparently imported intact from the beloved novel, courtesy of screenwriter Drew Goddard, who's usually wittier).

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.

When you've worked behind the counter of a pet store for a number of years, you'll find that you start to develop some rather pat and rhetorical comments and answers to commonplace questions from clients.

His films, often described as «visual essays», move from rhetorical questions to factual scientific statements, presenting concepts and ideas that emerge through philosophical texts and research.

For ICI, Uri Aran has created After Doodle, a series of meticulously printed, painted and drawn assemblages, which include playful doodles, stream - of - consciousness thoughts, rhetorical questions and comical prompts that have been removed from their original context.

Well, that just throws up so many questions; but I'll merely say that looking at a great deal of old figurative painting, from Giotto to Matisse, seems a lot more real and a lot less rhetorical than the experience of looking at Stella, particularly if you define «rhetorical» as something designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect, but which lacks meaningful content.

That last quote goes beyond being a rhetorical question or tease and instead seems an attempt to steer readers to the conclusion that Dr. Hansen's scientific work has become inseparable from and is fact dependent on external factors removed from pursuit of truth.

What you describe as being a question from one of our hosts was a rhetorical question and thus not an enquiry asking for a reply.

Another question (actual question, not rhetorical) is: If you had two ARGO floats connected by a rigid 10 meter pole so that they would have to travel together, up, down, and sideways, and the pair traveled the ocean doing the normal ARGO mission, would the data from the two buoys track within + / - 0.005 C?

Our Man from Mexico strikes again, this time with a rhetorical question that implies David Hume, the father figure of empiricism, is not an empiricist.

I will make one response, in the form of rhetorical questions, specific to your interesting historical narative because you say you understand statistics: what confidence can one get about a global temperature record from sampling a single locality (Dartmoor uplands)?

The post also uses a rhetorical question to advance the analysis and a pull quote (i.e. a quote set off from the rest of the text, in this case with the graphic design of large quotation marks) from the Copyright Act.