| All present took it, rightly, as a rhetorical question and did our best to nod agreement. |
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| In the talks I give, I raise a rhetorical question about how values function and how they apply to our own lives. |
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| It is not a rhetorical question, so please do me and anyone else reading along here the courtesy of a reply. |
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| It's in keeping with the rest of this discursive, stimulating book that Kermode leaves the reader with such a provocative, rhetorical question. |
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| It was a statement, a rhetorical question, and just by looking at her he was sure that it had made her angry. |
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| It might be a rather petulant rhetorical question, or he might just be trying to keep me on the phone. |
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| This isn't a rhetorical question but one that, again, would help show whether they're applying this rule fairly or arbitrarily. |
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| Rather he makes an antagonistic statement, couched as a rhetorical question. |
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| This is kind of a rhetorical question, but how do we get this other input in order to have a fair balance of ideas? |
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| The Chair: I don't want to get into a question and answer with the witness and the member, so I'll take that as a rhetorical question. |
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| I am not in the habit of answering rhetorical questions, but it is a serious rhetorical question. |
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| More often than not, the retort to this rhetorical question involves obscene invective, drawn from the vulgar nomenclature regarding genitalia and the act of coition. |
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| I'll have to accept that as a rhetorical question, because we're four minutes over in this round. |
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| Mr. Russ Powers: It's probably a rhetorical question, but I would welcome an answer if you're prepared to give one. |
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| One of the answers to his rhetorical question was to note what the province of Québec is doing: making youth engagement a priority. |
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| In his address, he posed the rhetorical question of what the climate has to do with business. |
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| The Speaker: Before I proceed to our final question, I said it was a rhetorical question. |
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| By asking a rhetorical question, my intention was to demonstrate that the process was not influenced by politics. |
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| Now, that's probably a rhetorical question, but are you able to say that's the reason there needs to be good training? |
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| Is that a rhetorical question in a time when you can find all information on the web? |
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| I only wish to clarify the rhetorical question that I posed. |
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| This is a rhetorical question, but is there a question about the support that line managers are getting locally from personnel managers when a matter first comes up? |
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| That sounds like a rhetorical question, but I mean it quite literally as a question. |
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| Kyle didn't offer him the time to answer the rather rhetorical question. |
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| It is a rhetorical question, but who of us knows anything about the European political parties? |
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| I was asked one specific question, and another rhetorical question to which I will return. |
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| I have a rhetorical question that you don't have to answer. |
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| This is the rhetorical question with which the article begins. |
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| I would just point out that there is nothing the least bit out of order in heckling that does not disrupt the House, particularly when it is in response to a rhetorical question. |
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| This is a very important bill from the standpoint that the member has asked somewhat of a rhetorical question of the House to consider and that is whether we have all the information we need to do the job we have to do. |
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| Since Mr. Colvin was the first one to bring this up in his testimony, I could do no better than to quote the rhetorical question he asked and then answered before the committee on Afghanistan. |
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| I ask the rhetorical question, why has it taken so long to get it through? |
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| I should like to conclude, Madam President, with a rhetorical question. |
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| This often indicates a question to which no answer is expected, as with a rhetorical question. |
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| Sometimes we may be encountering the punctus percontativus, used to indicate a rhetorical question. |
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| A rhetorical question is one used merely to make a point, with no response expected. |
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| On several occasions in the Gathas, the name Vistaspa serves as the answer to a rhetorical question. |
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| Typically, a rhetorical question is asked not to elicit information but to express emotion, as with erotesis and epiplexis. |
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