Sentences with phrase «rhetorical question in»

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

This is a negative rhetorical question in the Greek which means that the implied answer is an emphatic no.

Judging by all the rhetorical questions in this post, most likely.

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!»

For me, these are rhetorical questions written with a sense of sickening dread; others will doubtlessly repeat them in earnest and with angry, partisan vigour.

Use «a hook» — a rhetorical «trick» --(possibly in the form a question) to catch the attention and peak the interest of your listener.

Had his peers refuted the premise of his question with a reasoned defense of the freedom of consensual adults to engage in physiologically dangerous sex - acts, then they would have been engaging in informative social influence through positive rational or rhetorical persuasion.

Tallulah... yeah, I know... it was a rhetorical question, as I know there is absolutely no proof whatsoever for the belief in any god.

His rhetorical question some time back about Mormonism only coming about about in the nineteenth century, some 1,800 years after the Ascension of our Lord is spot on!

It is a rhetorical question of course since you have already indicated you think it originated in the Bronze Age.

No question about it, the listening is demanding, not only because of the writer's rhetorical style but also because of the assumption that the reader knows the Old Testament and the wilderness life of Israel, a life centered in the tabernacle and the daily ministrations of the priest.

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.

The answer to this question can not be found, as is so often claimed, in the inadequacies of the preacher so far as his rhetorical skill, his use of apt illustrations, his logical development of theme, and so forth are in view.

It's here, in the sermon's second half, that we find what Dominican chronicler Miguel Ángel Medina called Montesino's «arch-iconic» declaration of universal human equality, those rhetorical questions heaped upon the colonists (and all future oppressors): «Are they not men?

Wilhelm Wuellner's article, «Rhetorical Criticism,» in The Postmodern Bible outlines Kennedy's method before it goes on to raise questions about the rhetoric of interpretation itself.

Anyway, @godless — I have the same questions — at this point they have become rhetorical because no one has been able to answer them in a way that makes sense to me.

In most of the sermons I hear, questions are used in the sermon as rhetorical devices to win the attention of the congregation, but when carefully focused, placed, and delivered, non-rhetorical (that is, real) questions can perform social functionIn most of the sermons I hear, questions are used in the sermon as rhetorical devices to win the attention of the congregation, but when carefully focused, placed, and delivered, non-rhetorical (that is, real) questions can perform social functionin the sermon as rhetorical devices to win the attention of the congregation, but when carefully focused, placed, and delivered, non-rhetorical (that is, real) questions can perform social functions.

I'm not sure that's correct considering what the apostle writes in the first seven verses, especially the rhetorical question, «Is the law sin?»

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?

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?

The language is highly rhetorical, abounding in questions, wordplays, paradoxes, images, and appeals to authority and experience.

Are rhetorical questions overused in blog posts?

The adjudication of this question in Scripture often takes the form of a rhetorical trial, in which the prophet calls upon the true witnesses to come forward.

In school, all the grand old masters of literature are brought out for the children to study and to struggle with, with those dorky Questions for Class Discussion: What rhetorical device does the writer employ when he refers to «poems they tape to the refrigerator door»?

For this reader at least, the literary and rhetorical difficulty for such a book consists in locating within a single frame of discourse the respective partners in the changing relationship, and this difficulty itself points to the theological and ecclesiological problem that the authors rightly sense underlies their title question: «Is the Reformation Over?»

Hey man, not sure if that question's rhetorical, but sometimes seems this whole human experiment is a failure... that the only way anyone is like God in character is by being delivered and saved.

If Bell's book is not an argument for universalism, and that Bell's rhetorical questions are not meant to ridicule the traditional beliefs of eternal conscious suffering, penal substitutionary atonement, and salvation by faith alone in Christ alone, then the marketing mechanism is a paradigm example of what Harry Frankfurt has defined as «bull ****.»

The rhetorical question does not apply to process theists because we accept neither of the hypotheses in question.

That leads to the rhetorical questions: MacIntyre seems to uncritically accept Marx's description of capitalism in THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO.

It is the combination of these theological hypotheses that leads to the rhetorical question as to why this creator would have taken over 10 billion years simply setting the stage for the only part of the process in which something truly important is occurring.

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

At least in this obviously rhetorical question, I note with relief for your personal sanity, that you personally agree with Henry.

Though the question seemed rhetorical, each player felt compelled to answer in the affirmative — as insincere as that response might have been.

I will answer my own rhetorical question by saying it is because all respected journos everywhere know full well there is not a cat in hell's chance of Wenger EVER doing what he should have done a decade ago and ever since, by bringing in a DCM who is any good.

I apologise for the bombardment of rhetorical questions but what is the point of having these talented players if we don't have a manager who will use them in the their correct positions for any length of time?

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

McFadden's question on terrorism, for instance, was part of a cheap rhetorical manoeuvre in which those suggesting there is a causal link between Western foreign policy and terror attacks are told they are «victim blaming» those killed by terrorists.

This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and can not be reasonably answered in its current form.

This may seem like a rhetorical question, but I genuinely can't tell anymore what's legal in this respect.

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.

But the questions in each section are more questions that need to be answered as part of answering the titular question of the section than rhetorical.

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?

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.

In a 2009 Scientific American article he affirmed his rhetorical question, «Could food shortages bring down civilization?»

I realize that this may sound like a rhetorical question, but looking back, do you feel that the acquisition of muscle mass slowed you down any in terms of speed or quickness?

OK, that was a rhetorical question, just in case you felt pressured to answer...

So in answer to your rhetorical question the world doesn't ALWAYS need another fashion blog but it definitely needs yours.

Occasionally you'll lob in a question, but then her answer will spark a funny memory so you find yourself off again on a rhetorical mission.

I address this rhetorical question not to the makers of rom - com chum like Sweet Home Alabama for making it in the first place, but for making it and then giving test audiences Final Cut.