Sentences with phrase «with rhetorical questions»

Since I'm a therapist myself, he'd taunt me with rhetorical questions like, «Aren't you supposed to help me?

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?

that the canonical ones begin with the rhetorical question, «Which of you...?»

We conclude this first half of our discussion with a rhetorical question.

Safranski summarizes Schleiermacher's «capacious» position with a rhetorical question («Was not Romantic poetry with its sense of the uncanny and the wondrous already directly religious?»).

You've scored down all those who have disagreed with your rhetorical question and have only marked up Sohara who agreed with you.

Consider the post, 5 Cool Things No One Ever Told You About Nighttime Breastfeeding, which claims that the number 1 coolest thing about nighttime breastfeeding is «breastfeeding moms actually get MORE sleep than their formula - feeding counterparts,» and concludes with the rhetorical question: «Did you ever think, when you hear your baby rouse at 2:00 am, that they are actually giving you the gift of MORE sleep...?»

Liberal Conspiracy doesn't even bother with the rhetorical questioning, adopting straightforward ridicule:

Since the law the state is using to take over the schools was passed in 1999, Larsen ended his blog with a rhetorical question: «Is twelve years too long to wait?

«I continue with a rhetorical question for which we do not, and can not, have a definitive answer.

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.

Not exact matches

And the author follows with a layer - by - layer set of innuendos larded with arcane technical jargon and rhetorical questions to advance his deep and dark accusation.

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.

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.

Generally speaking, the answers are obvious, so to anyone with a modicum of discernment and common sense, the questions are rhetorical.

He ends with this question: «Can Catholics and other people of good will agree to make abortions rare, and mean it, or will the issue remain a rhetorical ploy Republicans exploit and a moral scandal to which Democrats are blind?»

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?»

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?

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»?

I think that's a rhetorical question, but I will answer you......... Arsenal can't and will not win the league with that squad.

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

Rhetorical question or not: the problem with homebirth is that the information is hidden, glossed over, made out to be false or biased, or otherwise ignored.

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?»

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?

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?

His questions are rhetorical, with meaning, and...

Designers posed that rhetorical question this season by presenting dresses with low - dipping cowl backs that stop just shy of the tailbone.

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.

Rhetorical question of the day: How on Earth could the MPAA slap Broken Wings with an R rating?

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.

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.

A poster giving prompts / starters for rhetorical questions to help children with their writing.

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

I'm working on my Web site (what the heck can you put on a site with only one book, no awards, no reviews, and no testimonials??! < — rhetorical question).

He's a great resource for learning all about literary agents — what they do, how to get them, how not to annoy them and inadvertently sabotage your writing career with an ill - fated rhetorical question.

I have a question for the indie authors on this post (a genuine question which I don't know the answer to, not a sassy rhetorical question agreeing with the original poster).

is the presumably rhetorical question teased on the cover, along with a circle of lawmakers applauding Ronald Reagan.

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.

That's not only a rhetorical question but it's also one I presented myself with whilst I was initially playing the game and I really didn't have an answer — until I worked out what and why I was doing things.

In 8 minutes or less, speakers delivered inspirational, arms - length examples ending with a suggestion or a rhetorical question.

And frankly, unless you come back with a genuine question rather than just a rhetorical quibble, I won't engage any further.

Personally, I think any reasonable person who visits lucia's site with any regularity will agree she doesn't show bias in regard to the use of rhetorical questions.

If I was to make a somewhat cynical reply to Bender's rhetorical question, I'd answer «It doesn't matter what's wrong with it.

It's the conference theme and the rhetorical question we are all grappling with at the Northwest Earth Institute's North American gathering at Fort Worden State Park here in Port Townsend.

A nice piece, Barry, though I reckon you're drawing a bit of a long bow with your last rhetorical question.

The larger (and more important) rhetorical pattern, though, is projection: denialism begins and ends with bad arguments and unsupported conclusions that are never, ever withdrawn or questioned — so mainstream scientists must be accused of dogmatism and closed minds.

A great attention grabber is to start with a quote, anecdote or rhetorical question.

It is a rhetorical question, perhaps, but one any lawyer should ask before working with any legal referral or directory company.

As with many rhetorical questions, the answer to this one is yes.

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.