Sentences with phrase «rhetorical questions as»

Aaron when someone defaults to presumptuous rhetorical questions as a tool to put another down and dismiss their pov out of hand, one has a choice of ignoring it or responding.

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.

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

Understand that this is not a defense of sexual harassment in the workplace, but rather a rhetorical question as to whether it's less egregious an offense if the victim isn't up for sainthood.

Using that rhetorical question as a springboard, I'll go out on a limb here and claim that, if anything, Ubisoft's new DRM method has made people want to pirate Assassin's Creed II even more.

That's a rhetorical question as the result would probably look like the chum that Cappy Dick tosses in the water.

That is rhetorical question as obviously the warmists are trying their best to avoid a rapid drop off in sunspot number.

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

After listing Charlemagne's previous conquests as evidence of his power, he introduces the main theme with a rhetorical question: «Under these conditions, was it not to be expected» that the king should add a more general title commensurate with his authority?

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.

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.

So I suppose I'll happily leave my question as rhetorical.

Same - sex advocates are inclined to treat the latter questions as rhetorical absurdities, but the evidence for posing them is not hard to find» and, Not surprisingly, it generally conforms to the argumentum ad consummationem pattern.

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 functions.

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?»

(They were meant as geniune questions, not rhetorical arguments, and I'm glad you took them that way.)

As justification for this assessment the Pope puts the rhetorical question: Can God, who is ultimate justice, tolerate terrible crimes and let them go unpunished?

I took the phrase of the objector to be a negative rhetorical question, which is why I rephrased it as a I did.

Hm, I should add that although these questions are important to me, I pose them here as rhetorical thoughts.

Pilate, who was not a Jew and was something of a cynic, as evidenced by his rhetorical question, What is Truth?

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 answer to Paul's rhetorical question is obvious, though it seems to have been lost on Mr. Neuhaus» just as the allusion of the article's title was lost on him.

I suppose you are asking that as a rhetorical question.

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

Feel free to add the video I posted as a comment to the question as a source for Bush's new rhetorical strategy.

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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?»

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.

Impact on Evolution Debates over whether to label viruses as living lead naturally to another question: Is pondering the status of viruses as living or nonliving more than a philosophical exercise, the basis of a lively and heated rhetorical debate but with little real consequence?

Let's keep my authority respected and leave this as a rhetorical question.

Even when meant as a compliment, this rhetorical question is more likely to land as an insult.

These questions are rhetorical (as you've probably already guessed) because we've already reported on the Point Break remake and its Christmas premiere.

in the retro - futuristic world of Priest, a question that proves rhetorical; throughout, rewrites, preview versions, and cutting - room innovations are candidly discussed, with Sam Raimi's editor Bob Murawski receiving special praise as a latecomer to the project who instituted structural changes that made the film more linear.

The first question of why Linklater would shoot his actors on digital video before transforming them into jittering, now - abstract / now - expressionist versions of themselves is answered by the goal of Waking Life to function as a giant rhetorical conundrum.

This is low stakes and fun, while giving the teacher an opportunity to introduce them to persuasive techniques such as: rhetorical questions, reasoning, generalizations, and emotive language.

The debate on balancing as a moral and legal approach are numerous, but two main questions that are always requestioned and re-examined are first juridical - philosophical question that refers on the nature of balancing, whether it is a rational procedure for applying norms or a mere rhetorical device.

It's a rhetorical question because as everyone knows, the answer is no.

@Philipp It may have been intended as a financial planning question, but it may have been intended as a rhetorical question to point out that the proposed HC reform doesn't help the neediest, rather it provides more benefit the more taxable income one has to shelter through an HSA.

He actually used the term in the following rhetorical question he posed to his audience, «But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?»

Jessup doesn't burden himself or his audience with even the slightest support for his assertions; his claims are as much conjecture as anything else, his question largely rhetorical.

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.

Greenberg meant that as a rhetorical question, a matter of ethical and cultural as well as esthetic values.

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.

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.

We can see that when Cruz, as an aggressive rhetorical ploy, says quite clearly that someone is incorrect if they answer «yes» to the question of: «Is there global warming, yes or no?»

If you are attempting to elicit a response (as opposed to posting vitriol - laden rhetorical questions for the sake of it) may I strongly suggest you RE-read Mark «s post at # 64 in relation to accepted posting guidelines on this forum.

A blog is described as «heavily criticised» (by whom I wonder — no don't bother, it was a rhetorical question), and a confusion among the troops ensues by the cleverly inserted link «it was the sun wot done it», which if followed, leads you down a blind alley about the Thatcher election being won by virtue of the Sun newspaper editorials.

You should probably treat my question as rhetorical.