What is the rhetorical question Hamlet addresses in his soliloquy?
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"I'm just asking the rhetorical question," Biden told the newspaper.
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Thus far this rhetorical question has been met with dead air.
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A Jewish listener also stood up and asked a rhetorical question.
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Don't interrupt, Gemini, that was a rhetorical question — there is not.
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A random, sort of indecipherable rhetorical question about torches being passed.
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That was a rhetorical question, Leo — the answer is suburban malls.
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He could pack infinitesimal shadings of nuance into a rhetorical question.
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In no way do I mean that to be a rhetorical question.
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It was a rhetorical question, but this is no ordinary dust-up.
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Could be a rhetorical question, but I urge you to answer it.
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" In the same tweet, the President asked the rhetorical question: "Change libel laws?
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This is not a rhetorical question, and it's not one I can answer.
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Hello. Later into Saturday night, Musk comes out with this bizarre rhetorical question.
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"If America does it, why can't we?" is a powerful rhetorical question everywhere.
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The implication is a rhetorical question: What's Etsy really going to do to Amazon?
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It then concludes with Clinton again asking the rhetorical question about the 50-point spread.
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Clinton just discovered the dangers of a rhetorical question, courtesy of a new Trump ad.
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This is not a rhetorical question: will you join us and vote to adopt the resolution?
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Eh, it was a rhetorical question, you never really get to choose this sort of thing.
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I was so taken aback that I came very close to answering her rhetorical question myself.
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That's a rhetorical question, because in both cases, if you haven't consented, it's a lose-lose situation.
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"What evidence of a crime do you have?" he said, posing a rhetorical question for House Democrats.
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" Early in the film, Mr. Reiner asks a rhetorical question: "How come we got the extra years?
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This is a somewhat rhetorical question, given that the year is almost over, but not a facetious one.
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" At his news conference, Mr. Trump posed a rhetorical question to the assembled reporters, "Where does it stop?
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Step 1: Ask a rhetorical question that focuses on the problems your marketplace faces, and that you can fix.
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It's been more than a rhetorical question since January, after a video, pulled from the social media platform Live.
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"The rhetorical question is whether we have seen the peak (of rating upgrade cycle) for emerging markets," he said.
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That's a rhetorical question, and so I'm not obligated to answer, and yet I will: It simply is not.
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Even a rhetorical question will make a distracted colleague look up from their iPhone and reengage in your material.
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I tweeted about it, asking a largely rhetorical question about where in the Bible these alleged gun rights exist.
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" "(Asked on whether the new European Commission president should be a former head of government) It is a rhetorical question.
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It's not a rhetorical question, and the answer is that Golden State would probably just shrug and do their thing.
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But from the enthusiasm in Super's voice, I gather this is more of a pipe dream than a rhetorical question.
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That sounds like a rhetorical question, but Jordana Kier, founder of organic feminine care brand LOLA, actually wants to know.
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Now a CEO, Marte asked the audience a rhetorical question of his own: Who among us had ever smoked weed?
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To head off any other questions about what comes next, he answers them pre-emptively in a rhetorical question format. Politics?
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That's not a rhetorical question; I'd really love to know why you'd ever use a shootout in a gold medal game.
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And that was for Governor Pence but also a rhetorical question for every G.O.P. official in the country and those listening.
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But when Paul asks, "Do you know what people are capable of when they're desperate?" it isn't exactly a rhetorical question.
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Fortunately, it was also a rhetorical question, which everyone knows is a recipe for disaster if you're trying to prove a point.
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It's a rhetorical question familiar in the United States, where coal-mining jobs have been on a fairly steady decline since the 1980s.
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Add to it the narrative voice: that of an almost giddy sommelier expressing himself with too many exclamation points and rhetorical question marks.
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"What the hell do you have to lose?" he has said frequently over the past week in a rhetorical question aimed at African-Americans.
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Before providing some detail to the answer behind that rhetorical question, let's go through how Tuesday unfolded from a personal and marco media perspective.
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It's a rhetorical question, sure, but let's be real: we're all in on having Tan France give our favorite Netflix stars the Queer Eye treatment.
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Sorn, for example, imbued with an avuncular sweetness by Mr. Daily, stops to ask us his own (rhetorical) question about the fluid nature of time.
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The best example of such a rhetorical question came from Yahoo News's Hunter Walker, who made the obligatory inquiry about "covfefe," Trump's viral Twitter typo.
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Absolutely. Issues of standing aside, this decision ultimately hinged on the answer to 9th Circuit Judge Michelle Friedland's seemingly rhetorical question: Is a president's decision unreviewable?
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Rhetorical question, it's mandatory:When a Stranger Decides to Destroy Your LifeIllustration: Angelica Alzona (Gizmodo)Monika Glennon has lived in Huntsville, Alabama, for the last 22 years.
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That appearance answers a rhetorical question one of Ms. Kelman's young clients posed a few weeks back: Where were you during my last year in seminary?
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It's a rhetorical question, but a telling one reminding us how the value of a dollar can change depending on where you are on the ladder.
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"I feel like that's almost a rhetorical question, like you know the answer to that already," he said, when asked why he's bringing back The Amanda Show.
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But in a radio interview, he posited a rhetorical question about Hillary Clinton voters: "How much soullessness must exist to vote for that kind of person?" he asked.
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Prosecutors argued that Wilders had set up the scene and intentionally had his speech climax with a rhetorical question that would incite the crowd and attract media attention.
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" Kavanaugh then went on to pose that rhetorical question: "Why should the President be different from anyone else for purposes of responding to a grand jury subpoena ad testificandum?
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But with the amount of controversial policies coming out of the Trump administration, it's no surprise some people have one important rhetorical question: Why did Obama have to go?!
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Do not answer that rhetorical question, because yours are the feeble dreams of weaklings and mine is to whip this sorry, good-for-nothing blog audience squad into shape!
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When I said, 'Any questions?' at the end of my previous email, it was what is known as a rhetorical question, as in one that doesn't need a response.
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That's obviously a rhetorical question and she proved herself once again this weekend when she temporarily joined the Houston Texan cheerleaders for a game against the San Francisco 49ers, E!
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That's not a rhetorical question, but this is not a time to be too forlorn about the abject Bullsiness of this move, and of the Bulls generally in recent years.
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We got Meek at Life nightclub in Houston Friday and he showed us his massively expensive bling, followed up with a rhetorical question ... why would I need to rob Nicki?
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There may have been a time when the answer to that (non-rhetorical) question included a cornucopia of excuses — grocery shopping is hard, cooking is hard, thinking of recipes is hard.
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Being a show that's a mystery wrapped in an enigma stuffed inside a rhetorical question buried underneath a series of riddles, Westworld is a show that doesn't end when the credits do.
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And by the way, don't you find it interesting — that's a rhetorical question — don't you think it's interesting, the idea that everybody acknowledges it's going to take a while to pass this?
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Having that question [around my identity] my whole life was kind of insulting," Trujillo said, adding the rhetorical question, "Do I question your background because you have brown eyes and brown hair?
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Of course the answer to that humorous rhetorical question is that the voters will not see any reason to vote for Republicans if they're just espousing the same philosophies and policies as Democrats.
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"Did you vote for me to abolish corruption?" he thundered, a rhetorical question from a man who led his party to victory two years ago with promises to fight corruption and promote economic development.
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As immortalized in When Harry Met Sally, a casual listener to the song is likely to be confused as to what the central opening lyric means: The answer is that it's a rhetorical question.
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Last night, Trump asked via Twitter whether the world will ever realize what is going on — whether that's a rhetorical question that Trump (thinks he) knows the answer to or a genuine question is unclear.
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"Seeing how there was a very small presence of protesters compared to the police, it evoked something in me to ask the officers a rhetorical question of what got us to this point," she said.
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" The crowd in San Diego roared "No" like the audience at a Christmas pantomime when Mrs Clinton bundled all of that into a single rhetorical question: "Do we want his finger anywhere near the button?
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Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) tangled with him on war powers, and Klobuchar got a chance to repeat her rhetorical question of why a man with a short résumé gets to be a top presidential candidate.
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Nothing." Paine's rhetorical question, of course, underscored the criteria for much of the flawed American immigration policy for the next century: the 1790 Alien Naturalization Act limited citizenship to a "free white person" with "good moral character.
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It's a rhetorical question in response to a sarcastic statement, and it's endlessly irritating for a character with such a strong point of view, at such a central part of the story, to be turned into a broken record.
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When Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman was asked at a press conference if Saudi Arabia is feeling vulnerable after what the country described as war on its energy assets, he answered with a rhetorical question exuding a sense of national pride.
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It's a rhetorical question meant to evoke a particular kind of peak experience — the early stages of infatuation, that blinding bliss — but the question also plays out across the arc of the book, as that initial thrill gives way to enduring intimacy.
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Astros cap sweep of Twins with 22.97-HR barrage MINNEAPOLIS — After piling up a franchise record for runs in a series and finishing out a seventh straight win, Houston Astros manager A.J. Hinch asked a rhetorical question to the reporters surrounding him on Wednesday.
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Just when we were settling into the idea that the Oscars were a little less white, the Grammy's were like "hold my beer…" And just last week, when Victoria's Secret released its 2017 #WhatIsSexy List, it indirectly answered its own rhetorical question with: white people.
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But I'll ask you a rhetorical question -- can you imagine if the President of the United States called a press conference in October ... and said, 'Tell you what, the Russians are trying to interfere with our elections and we have to do something about it.
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" Scoffing at the suggestion that he was playing with fire by criticizing the man he once hailed as the "Winston Churchill of our time," Mr. Savage posed a rhetorical question: "I'm going to get up every morning and do nothing but say how great he is?
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For example, after writing that it is vital to diversify your investments among stocks, bonds, cash and perhaps other investments such as real estate, how does Mr. Edelman respond to his rhetorical question "how much of your portfolio should be placed into each" of those assets?
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Part rhetorical question, part polemic: Do you feel burdened (by the expectations of others) / Honestly, all the time >> ACTION: You, set the traps / then, take a laxative / my friend / who succeeded / where I had failed > convinced me that she was passing for something she was / not.
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"I wanted to do a project that might be a kind of 'sharing economy' (that term always makes me laugh) update on Broodthaers's famous rhetorical question of whether he, too, could sell something and succeed in life," says artist Joe Scanlan, a founding member of the Broodthaers Society.
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Lovely as Telefone is, Room 25 is standing up and waving as of the hummed piano intro to the 1:35 "Self," and soon "My pussy teachin ninth-grade English / My pussy wrote a thesis on colonialism" is rendering "And y'all still thought a bitch couldn't rap huh?" a rhetorical question.
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When it comes to the time you spend on your phone, your computer, and the web, this doesn't have to be a vague and rhetorical question—plenty of tools out there will track and monitor your time automatically, telling you exactly which apps and sites are sucking up most of your precious minutes of existence.
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You might set requirements like these: Your soliloquies must: • be written in first person • be written in unrhymed or blank verse • begin with a rhetorical question • incorporate at least three poetic or literary devices Students should remember they are writing something intended to be spoken, so should try to hear the words as they write.
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The answer to that rhetorical question was the same then as it has been throughout the N.H.L. playoffs, as it was Monday night, when across the final two periods of the Blues' 212-2 Game 1 loss to the Boston Bruins it seemed as if Binnington was the only one who kept his composure.
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EditorsNote: updates first and last notes with Nunez taken off roster Altuve hits 93 homers as Astros roll in Game 29 HOUSTON — Presented a lengthy, rhetorical question seeking perspective on his historic three-homer game, Houston Astros second baseman Jose Altuve responded with a simplicity matching his successful approach at the plate, cutting to the chase with a one-word answer that succinctly summarized if he previously enjoyed such an incredible, singular performance in his career.
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Sometimes the implied answer to a rhetorical question is "Yes, but I wish it were not so" or vice versa: Another common form is the expression of doubt by questioning a statement just made; for example by appending the following to a sentence: "or did he?", "or is it?", as in, "The butler did it ... or did he?" It is also common to use a rhetorical question to bring an end to a debate or to finalize a decision.
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The rhetorical question mark or percontation point was invented by Henry Dunham in the 1580s and was used at the end of a rhetorical question; however, it became obsolete (its use died out) in the 17th century. It was the reverse of an ordinary question mark, so that instead of the main opening pointing back into the sentence, it opened away from it. This character can be represented using the reversed question mark found in Unicode as U+2E2E. The percontation point is analogous to the irony mark, but those are even more rarely seen.
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Adolf Hitler's Obersalzberg Speech may conclude with the rhetorical question: "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?" This version of the speech is disputed; not all historians accept that Hitler made the alleged statement.
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A rhetorical question may be intended as a challenge. The question is often difficult or impossible to answer. In the example, What have the Romans ever done for us? (Monty Python's Life of Brian) the question functions as a negative assertion.
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We had the Tango party—it was hot. It was the ticket." The Dallas Morning News reviewed the performance, starting with the rhetorical question; "what if Stevie Ray Vaughan had an album release party and everybody came? It happened Thursday night at Tango.
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"Where Have All the Universalists Gone?". The Universalist Herald.Prominent Universalist advocate Hosea Ballou summarized the motivation for the doctrine with the rhetorical question: > Your child has fallen into the mire, and its body and its garments are > defiled. You cleanse it, and array it in clean robes.
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Who's your daddy? is a slang expression that, in one use, takes the form of a rhetorical question. It is commonly used as a boastful claim of dominance over the intended listener. It may also be a part of role play between consenting adults or as a claim of sexual dominance.
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One of Legion's quotes from the series, "Does this unit have a soul?", a rhetorical question about whether he possesses the incorporeal essence of a living being, continues to be referenced by BioWare as well as other media. Various merchandise for the character, as with other of the series' squadmates, has been released.
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Verses 2–16 have been the source of much confusion for interpreters. In particular, problems come from the rhetorical question that nature teaches it is a shame for a man to have long hair and telling women to cover their heads on account of the angels. Interpretations tend to fall into three informal categories.
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About 1585 he removed to Aldersgate Street. The last entry under his name occurs in the Registers on 3 December 1589, after which nothing more is heard of him. Richard Yardley and Peter Short succeeded to the business. Denham invented the rhetorical question mark "⸮", which did not become a permanent part of the language.
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Scottish atrocities depicted in the fourteenth century Luttrell Psalter The Irish thought of Scotland as a provincial place. Others thought of it as an outlandish or barbaric place. "Who would deny that the Scots are barbarians?" was a rhetorical question posed by the author of the De expugnatione Lyxbonensi (i.e. "On the Conquest of Lisbon").
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69–73; Richard Jensen, "The Lynds Revisited", Indiana Magazine of History (December 1979) 75: 303–319 commentators used Midwestern cities (and the Midwest generally) as "typical" of the nation. Earlier, the rhetorical question, "Will it play in Peoria?", had become a stock phrase using Peoria, Illinois to signal whether something would appeal to mainstream America.Scheetz, George H. "Peoria".
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A rhetorical question (provided it is not directly dependent on a verb of speaking, and provided that it is not derived from an originally 2nd person verb) is put in the accusative and infinitive construction:Gildersleeve & Lodge (1895), p. 415. : (Caesar)Caesar, B.C. 1.9.5. :'what purpose did all these things have except for his own destruction?' : (Caesar)Caesar, B.G. 5.28.3.
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He pressed home his point by describing the parties where "the most disgusting and disgraceful and revolting acts of degeneracy and depravity took place openly in plain view of all present." Finally he urged the dean on with a rhetorical question: "Isn't it about time an end was put to this sort of thing in college?"Paley, Part I; Wright 47-8.
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Aphorismus (from the , aphorismós, "a marking off", also "rejection, banishment") is a figure of speech that calls into question if a word is properly used ("How can you call yourself a man?"). It often appears in the form of a rhetorical question which is meant to imply a difference between the present thing being discussed and the general notion of the subject.
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The term comes from the Greek (anakoinoûn), meaning "to communicate, impart". Anacoenosis typically uses a rhetorical question, where no reply is really sought or required, thus softening what is really a statement or command. Asking a question that implies one clear answer is to put others in a difficult position. If they disagree with you, then they risk conflict or derision.
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Michael is a masculine given name derived from the Hebrew phrase mī kāʼēl, “Who [is] like-El”, in Aramaic: ܡܝܟܐܝܠ (Mīkhāʼēl ). The theophoric name is a rhetorical question – "Who [is] like [the Hebrew God] El?", whose answer is “there is none like El”, or "there is none as famous and powerful as god". This question is known in Latin as Quis ut Deus?.
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The theory of genetic conflict and evolution is debated using the rhetorical question, are we bodies containing genes, or genes in bodies? ;Chapter 8, Self-Interest Richard Dawkins's concept of the "selfish gene" is described by Ridley through a discussion of retrotransposons. This includes the behavior of the LINE-1 and Alu transposons. Further, Ridley discusses the possible purposes of cytosine methylation in development.
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His last words, "can ye drink of the cup that I drink of?", is the question Jesus asks St. James and St. John in the Gospel of Mark, chapter 10, vs 38–39, a rhetorical question intended to demonstrate that the disciples are wrong to covet his glory because they are unable to bear the suffering for the sins of the world for which he is destined.
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On 23 August 2009, along with her friend Zineb El Rhazoui, she co-founded the Mouvement alternatif pour les libertés individuelles (MALI), a movement to defend individual freedoms in Morocco. In Moroccan Arabic (Darija), mali also means "What's wrong with me?" or "What are you accusing me of?"; thus it constitutes a rhetorical question to opponents of freedom, telling them to mind their own business.
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Negmatov and Belyaeva 1977, Raskopki na tsitadeli Leninabad i lokalizatsiy a Aleksandrii Eskhati. Harmatta 1994 p.100 In the Tabula Peutingeriana, below the city there is a rhetorical question in Latin: "Hic Alexander responsum accepit: usque quo Alexander?" () — referencing both his insatiable appetite for conquest and a legend from the Alexander Romance in which "celestial creatures" admonished Alexander to not pursue further explorations, which would ultimately lead to his untimely death.
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Several critics have approved the poet's smooth handling of his metre, the four-stress couplet, Likewise there has been praise for the lyrical verses on the seasons of the year with which the romance is sprinkled. It has been noted that the poet was capable of using rhetorical devices, including repetition, homely similes, the rhetorical question and, especially, the use of those verbal formulas that typify epic poetry.
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" The group delivers a half-rapped performance on the first and second verses of the song, while in the chorus, they raise a rhetorical question: "When you look at me, what do you see? / Open your eyes, I’m more brilliant than you’ll ever be / Who said I was an angel?” The group continue to ask the same question throughout the record, as Rachael Ellenbogen from International Business Times commented.
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The Work and Its Interpretation; in 2009 Ashgate Publishers issued an English translation of the book Understanding Music. Translated into Italian and Czech: The Music of Gustav Mahler and Music in the Occident. Christoph Keller's rhetorical question from 1997, "whether a Mahler critique like his can be written after Auschwitz and whether it can be written by someone who belonged to Hitler's Wehrmacht", can be criticized with good reasons.Volker Hagedorn: Unheimliches Abendland.
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The song tells how on Christmas morning, Tommy's father is worried about Tommy's future, and soul. His future is jeopardized due to being deaf, dumb, and blind. The lyrics contrast religious themes such as Christmas and Jesus Christ with Tommy's ignorance of such matters. The rhetorical question, "How can he be saved from the eternal grave?" is asked about Tommy's condition and adds speculation as to the nature of original sin and eternal salvation.
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On the April 9, 2010 episode of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, comedian Chris Rock paid tribute to Thomas in the form of a rhetorical question, "Who was funnier than Warren Thomas?" He was survived by his wife of 7 years, his mother, and his 5 siblings. Thomas was a football and basketball player in high school as well as a lifelong San Francisco 49'rs and SF Giants baseball fan.
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Protest against alleged electoral fraud. A rhetorical question is one for which the questioner does not expect a direct answer: in many cases it may be intended to start a discourse, or as a means of putting across the speaker's or author's opinion on a topic. A common example is the question "Can't you do anything right?" This question, when posed, is intended not to ask about the listener's ability but rather to insinuate the listener's lack of ability.
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The song was a hugely successful single; Spin magazine named it one of the greatest singles of the 1990s, offering a brief verdict with the rhetorical question, "Ever wonder where Puffy came from?" It also made some media outlets' lists of one of the best rap songs of all time: including The Source, VH1 (No. 22), and Rolling Stone (No. 80). The song was also ranked No. 20 on VH1's 40 Greatest Hip Hop Songs of the '90s.
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After speaking with Lotshe and Thompson, the king was still hesitant to make a decision. Thompson appealed to Lobengula with a rhetorical question: "Who gives a man an assegai [spear] if he expects to be attacked by him afterwards?" Seeing the allusion to the offered Martini–Henry rifles, Lobengula was swayed by this logic, and made up his mind to grant the concession. "Bring me the fly-blown paper and I will sign it," he said.
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Adam and Eve in an illuminated manuscript (c. 950) In the next narrative dialogue, God questions the man and the woman (), and God initiates a dialogue by calling out to the man with a rhetorical question designed to consider his wrongdoing. The man explains that he hid in the garden out of fear because he realized his own nakedness (). This is followed by two more rhetorical questions designed to show awareness of a defiance of God's command.
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Shelley asks how there can be unity in nature but a lack of union in human relationships. The poetic devices Shelley uses in the poem include Personification (Fountains mingle with the river; Winds of heaven mix forever with a sweet emotion; The mountains kiss high heaven; The waves clasp one another; Moonbeams kiss the sea), Metaphor (No sister flower could be forgiven if it disdained its brother), and the Rhetorical question (If thou kiss not me?).
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She also accused the Talmud of sanctifying child molestation, human sacrifice and cannibalism, claiming that Jewish rituals required the sexual abuse, killing and eating of Christian children. She claimed that the Talmud was guilty of "incitements to hatred of gentiles and Christians in particular", and asked the rhetorical question: "Could these awful texts have prompted the child murders?" Finally, she claimed that Jews still engage in the killing and eating of Christian children, complaining that the attorney-general had failed to act on her complaints.
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In 2004, "Chicken Rice" was released with lyrics written by Matsumoto. The lyrics reflect their childhood (more specifically Matsumoto's childhood) and tells the story about how it was too expensive for them to eat out at restaurants or have nice food, so out of consideration for his parents he would always eat chicken rice as it was the cheapest. The song also asks the rhetorical question "Do children appreciate what their parents do for them nowadays?". This song reached number 2 in the Oricon weekly rankings.
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"Die ganze Welt braucht Liebe" (The whole world needs love) was the Austrian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1958, performed in German by Liane Augustin. The song was performed ninth on the night (following Germany's Margot Hielscher with "Für zwei Groschen Musik" and preceding Switzerland's Lys Assia with "Giorgio"). The song is a ballad, in which Augustin sings that the entire world needs love and asks if it should be any different for her. She answers her own rhetorical question in the negative.
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Three of our sources -- Theophanes, the Paschal Chronicle, and Paullus Diaconus—support this version. Edward Gibbon accepts this implication as fact, although none of the three sources explicitly state that Leo supported Olybrius. What other reason could there be, Bury asks, then answers his own rhetorical question: "the facts that Anthemius was Leo's chosen candidate, his filius, and that Olybrius was the friend of his foe Genseric, are a strong counter-argument."Bury, "A note on the Emperor Olybrius", English Historical Review 1 (1886), pp.
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The soundtrack for the 2004 film Team America: World Police contains a song entitled "End of an Act". The song's chorus recounts, "Pearl Harbor sucked, and I miss you" equating the singer's longing for his girlfriend to how much "Michael Bay missed the mark when he made Pearl Harbor" which is "an awful lot, girl". The ballad contains other common criticisms of the film, concluding with the rhetorical question "Why does Michael Bay get to keep on making movies?""Team America: End of an act lyrics." lyricsbox.com.
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A shift in Ko Jinha’s world of poetry is noticeable starting with Ujubaekkop (우주배꼽 The Universe’s Bellybutton) (1997). Suffering still prevails in the world, and there are always wars being waged somewhere in the world. But in “Jangma” (장마 Rainy Season), the poet who hears the news of a war thinks of Calvary where Jesus died and names the hill “the universe’s bellybutton.” In this rhetorical question (“There,/you can still hear/the cry of newborns?”) is the will to embrace the painful reality with the arms of nature.
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A rhetorical question is asked to make a point, and doesn't expect an answer (often the answer is implied or obvious). As such, it isn't a true question. Similarly, requests for things other than information, as with "Would you pass the salt?" are interrogative in form, but aren't true questions. Pre-suppositional or loaded questions, such as "Have you stopped beating your wife?" may be used as a joke or to embarrass an audience, because any answer a person could give would imply more information than he was willing to affirm.
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In 2003, Media Lens compared the BBC's reporting on the Iraq war to "Boys' Own war pornography". They cited a rhetorical question posed by BBC correspondent Bridget Kendall in 2006, about whether the Iraq war was "justified" or a "disastrous miscalculation" as a demonstration of personal bias, and not meeting the requirement for reporting to be impartial. In their opinion, Kendall's question excluded the view, held by the anti-war movement and ex-UN secretary general Kofi Annan, that the war was "an illegal war of aggression". (extract from Newspeak in the 21st Century, 2009).
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The most striking feature was the extremely long (for a five-passenger car) hood-like cover over the luggage compartment of the sedan which was exaggerated on the Starlight. Critics of the radically styled models commented by asking the rhetorical question, "Which way is it going?" (Comedian Fred Allen quipped: "Next year Studebaker is coming out with a model that you won't be able to tell if it is going sideways".) The viewer's astonishment was compounded by the great expanse of the wrap-around rear window. Previously cars had tended to shroud back-seat passengers.
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He also alienates the wing's Deputy Commander for Maintenance, Colonel "Smokin' Joe" Garcia (Henry Silva) by telling him that he must learn to delegate authority—and when Garcia applies for a transfer to a B-58 Hustler bomb wing, Caldwell refuses to act on it. Farr protests that Caldwell is "going out on a limb", to which Caldwell replies with a biting rhetorical question, "What's wrong with that?" Caldwell's harsh policies soon alienate even Victoria, who has befriended Fowler's wife. Eventually, morale at the upper echelons goes from bad to worse.
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She may also have been mindful of her husband's rhetorical question, before he died: when referring to their daughter he asked," 'What right have you to deprive her of the Socialism for which so many people died or went into exile? It may be imperfect but something can be made of it." Edith was not blind to the imperfections of daily life in the German Democratic Republic, but nor had she lost her Marxist idealism. The decision taken, after three months in New York Edith Anderson returned home to East Berlin.
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Banzhaf's advocacy has drawn criticism. In 2006, Ezra Levant wrote in the National Post, "Banzhaf was the health-law strategist who destroyed the concept of personal responsibility when it came to smoking." Addressing the charge that his legal campaigns and victories have reduced personal responsibility, according to the Hartford Courant, Banzhaf replied with a rhetorical question: Banzhaf was criticized for his 2011 lawsuits and Human Rights charges against the Catholic University of America. The first was a gender-discrimination lawsuit in response to President John H. Garvey's decision to implement same sex dorms on campus.
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Jeevan Brar of MSN TV asked the rhetorical question: "If Y&R; was so intent on killing off a child and an Abbott, then why not Johnny Abbott?", pointing out that it would have been a more "symbolic" storyline for different reasons. Shortly after her death, Delia's corneas were given to Connor Newman, the newborn son of Chloe's best friend Chelsea Lawson (Melissa Claire Egan) and her ex-husband Adam Newman (Michael Muhney), who was in desperate need of a cornea transplant. Coincidentally, Adam happens to be the driver of the car that killed Delia.
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Comprising a History of Representative Institutions and Responsible Government at the Cape, Volume I. London: Smith, Elder & Co., Waterloo Place, 1900. Various anecdotes exist of Dr White's naive good-nature in politics. Edmund Burrows wrote of Jock Paterson, an especially confrontational member of the opposition, in a crescendo of an impassioned speech, asking, as a rhetorical question, what the basis for the governments accounts were: "... when Paterson repeated the question, Molteno could restrain (White) no longer: "Debit and credit!", he beamed through his spectacles to Paterson opposite, and brought the house down."E.
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Like the leaves of the trees in a forest, his leaves will fall and decay and will perhaps soon flourish again when the spring comes. That may be why he is looking forward to the spring and asks at the end of the last canto "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" (70). This is of course a rhetorical question because spring does come after winter, but the "if" suggests that it might not come if the rebirth is strong and extensive enough, and if it is not, another renewal—spring—will come anyway.
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Jason Lipshutz of Billboard magazine described the video as "somber" and the singer's look as "especially demure". Lipshutz concluded that "the clip ends without ever reaching any kind of conclusion -- much like the rhetorical question 'Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful?' at the heart of the song." Spins Marc Hogan described it as "elegantly conceived, but succeed[s] only as much as the music does". An edit of the video set to the Cedric Gervais remix was published on 27 September 2013.
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I don't know how much longer I can do this. Please bring me home." Of Corby, Howard said: "I feel for her. I understand why there's a lot of public sympathy for her; I would simply say that I hope justice is done and it's a fair and true verdict ... I would ask the rhetorical question: My fellow Australians, if a foreigner were to come to Australia and a foreign government were to start telling us how we should handle [it], we would react very angrily to that.
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In a scathing critique of the referendum proposal, he poses the following rhetorical question: "Have we so little faith in our ability to defeat Communism in a free encounter that we must employ totalitarian methods against them?"The Argus, 22 August 1951 The Liberal Party's Victorian Division voted to suspend Missen as vice-president of the Young Liberal and Country Movement. The referendum proposal was narrowly defeated, a major setback for the Menzies Government. Missen's defiant position on the Communist referendum caused him to be overlooked for Liberal preselection for the next two decades.
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"If the Portuguese had wrested the spice trade from the Arabs in those distant lands, then why shouldn't a people enslaved by a false doctrine be likewise freed? This rhetorical question became for Xavier his ultimate concern. It was Portugal's supremacy on the seas and in the spice trade that allowed it to flourish." The first Dutch expedition left from Amsterdam (April 1595) for South East Asia.Donkin, 169 Another Dutch convoy sailed in 1598 and returned one year later with 600,000 pounds of spices and other Indian products.
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A widely heard rhetorical question was, "What is more useful, sausage or freedom?" The conservative majority in parliament—largely managers, administrators, and representatives of such groups as war veterans and collective and state farm managers—had successfully slowed the pace of reforms, and the standard of living had decreased dramatically for most of the population. In view of the tremendous economic difficulties that accompanied the post-Soviet period, the years before perestroika looked reasonably good to most citizens. The populace was frustrated by the misuse of a freedom whose benefits were measured predominantly in material terms.
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Crackdown was not expected to be a good game, due to it being tied to the anticipated Halo 3 multiplayer beta. However, the game surpassed many expectations; in his review, GameSpy's Gabe Graziani asked readers the rhetorical question; "Notice that I didn't mention the Halo 3 beta offer during this whole article? That's because it's completely irrelevant when looking at Crackdown, it's a solid game that delivers exactly what it promises: a giant sandbox to blow the crap out of". The game was named the 2007 BAFTA "Best Action and Adventure Game" and "Best Use of Audio".
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As a librettist, Kraus showed a series of scenes that covered the full spectrum of human emotions, from sorrow and fear to joy. The work corresponds fully to a rhetorical question already raised in Kraus's treatise Etwas von und über Musik: "Should not church music be mostly for the heart?" ("Soll die Musik in den Kirchen nicht am meisten fürs Herz sein?") During his stay in Göttingen, Kraus had become friendly with a Swedish fellow student, Carl Stridsberg, who persuaded him to accompany him to Stockholm to apply for a position at the court of King Gustav III.
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In a recent article for Foreign Policy, titled, "What went wrong with Afghanistan?" published in March 2013, Amrullah Saleh mentioned that the key reason for the current problematic situation in Afghanistan was the West's (US and NATO's) mistaken belief that Pakistan would change its policies in Afghanistan. Starting with a rhetorical question—Is NATO losing and the Taliban winning?—Amrullah Saleh discusses the uncertainty among the Afghans about 2014—when NATO ends its combat mission in Afghanistan. He then mentions Afghans’ perception that the US is funding both sides of the conflict because Pakistan remains the key country supporting the insurgency.
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His matches almost always began with him asking the rhetorical question "Who Better than Kanyon" as the crowd would respond "everybody" (or "nobody", if he was a face.) He formed an uneasy alliance with Perry Saturn in order to fight against The Flock, but eventually turned on Saturn and joined forces with Raven. After Saturn forced The Flock to disband by defeating Raven at Fall Brawl, Kanyon and Raven continued to team together until Raven, in storyline, was sidelined with depression and Kanyon took time away from his wrestling career to work as stunt coordinator and stuntman on The Jesse Ventura Story.
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The documentary's end text states that it took Spurlock 5 months to lose and another 9 months to lose the last . His then-girlfriend Alex, now his ex-wife, began supervising his recovery with her "detox diet", which became the basis for her book, The Great American Detox Diet. The movie ends with a rhetorical question, "Who do you want to see go first, you or them?" This is accompanied by a cartoon tombstone, which reads "Ronald McDonald (1954–2012)", which originally appeared in The Economist in an article addressing the ethics of marketing to children.
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There is one contestant each day who is faced with eight complete strangers (known in the programme as "wage-earners"), all of whom wear black T-shirts with their names printed on. They only speak once in play, at the beginning of the game, by saying their name, the town or city in which they live, and asking a rhetorical question of whether they earn the highest amount of money. Each round eliminates one wage-earner and the wage that person earns. The aim is for the contestant to eliminate the lower wages first in order to keep the highest prizes remaining.
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In 1735, Alexander Pope wrote a satirical poem that mocked the courtier Lord Hervey, who had been accused of homosexuality a few years earlier. He scoffs at using so strong a weapon as satire upon a weak and effeminate target like Sporus, "that mere white curd of ass's milk", and in a famous line Pope poses the rhetorical question: "Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?" – Excerpts from My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through the Centuries (1998), Edited by Rictor Norton As first published the verse referred to Paris, but was changed to Sporus when republished a few months later.
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But in the following scene in Natan's bureau this picture is replaced by one of Stalin. The conversation between Rosa and Natan already suggests that Natan believes Korney to be innocent and suspects Pinya of the crime. The replacement of the picture is paralleled with the replacement of the murder suspects, and as Natan has already occupied the advisory function of the shtetl Rabbi, Korney's acquittal also places him symbolically at the position of an acceptable husband for Rosa, despite his non-Jewish heritage. In particular, because the rhetorical question posed by Rosa: “I don't know who's better … The Russian Korney or the Jew Pinya?”, finds a definite answer here.
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For example, it discovered the synchronicity of sound between certain words that remind the theme of reconciliation while reading it. Listening to the repetitive sound of the letter "K" in words like blueblack, cracked, ached, weekday, the reader can draw a melodic map of how to read the entire poem, connecting the fire, the season, the fire, and the son. Hayden also uses a metaphor, using the image of his father building the fire, that suggests the speaker finally discovered his father's love which he thought it never existed before. The speaker ends the poem with a rhetorical question by which he realizes his father's love towards him.
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No agreed-upon method for indicating irony in written text exists, though many ideas have been suggested. For instance, an irony punctuation mark was proposed in the 1580s, when Henry Denham introduced a rhetorical question mark or percontation point, which resembles a reversed question mark. This mark was also advocated by the French poet Marcel Bernhardt at the end of the 19th century, to indicate irony or sarcasm. French writer Hervé Bazin suggested another pointe d'ironie: the Greek letter psi with a dot below it, while Tom Driberg recommended that ironic statements should be printed in italics that lean the other way from conventional italics.
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The man rests face down with the back of his shirt ripped open, having slid to the bottom of a trench atop which his rifle is planted, bayonet-first, into the sand. Accompanying the photograph were the printed words of Sophocles' rhetorical question; ‘Who is the slayer, who the victim? Speak!’. Cropped and enlarged as a tall ‘exclamation-mark’ at 228.7 × 81.3 cm, the photograph stood by the entrance to a darkened room which housed a giant back-lit colour transparency (in the original in New York, replaced by a monochrome print at other venues) of the Ivy Mike hydrogen bomb test, also on Eniwetok Atoll.
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In Psalm 12 the godly perished and in Psalm 14 there is none righteous. That leaves a rhetorical question as to "who can ascend the mountain of God?" which is an inclusio (a pair of literary bookends) in Psalms 15–24, appearing in Psalm 15:1 and Psalm 24:3. In the context of the culture of the time, "who [then] can dwell in His tent" as a guest would not only be welcome but also come under his special protection. In the context of David's time, the ark has been in Shiloh in the tabernacle, and David moves the ark to Mount Zion to a newly made tabernacle there.
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That > is the sort of trouble you get into when there is a representative body who > are fighting back at home, your soldiers are at the front and they do not > appear to be achieving. Speaking in an Armed Forces debate in the House of Lords in June 2006, Field Marshal Lord Inge acknowledged a "growing demand for a military federation or union", but went on to pose the rhetorical question "whether those [armed forces] who have federations and unions have ever won".House of Lords Debates - 29 June 2006 - Armed Forces (accessed Nov 2007) A reportT Edmonds & A Foster, "Out of Step, The case for change in the British Armed Forces", pub. Demos, London 2007. .
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Cosell denounced professional boxing during the broadcast of a November 26, 1982 WBC heavyweight championship bout between titleholder Larry Holmes and a clearly outmatched Randall "Tex" Cobb at the Astrodome. The fight was held two weeks after the fatal fight between Ray Mancini and Duk Koo Kim, when Kim died shortly after the fight. Cosell famously asked the rhetorical question, "I wonder if that referee [Steve Crosson] understands that he is constructing an advertisement for the abolition of the very sport that he's a part of?" Cosell, horrified over the brutality of the one-sided fight, said that if the referee did not stop the fight he would never broadcast a professional fight again.
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A mysterious spaceship enters Earth's atmosphere, triggering a massive response from the American government. Since the ship has spread radiation over hundreds of miles of rural Montana, officials are quick to bring up the possibility of a terrorist attack, specifically the detonation of a dirty bomb, however, that idea is discarded subtly by the leading investigator, asking the rhetorical question "Who would launch an attack on Montana?". Debris is found in Canada, where an investigation of the crash discovers a live human being in a Soviet space suit. Federal agents working for the American Department of Homeland Security get involved, receiving permission from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to operate in Canada.
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The 'Man About Town' column in the Evening Mail believed that the whole composition was "bewildering and repulsive" (the length of the woman's neck seemed to be especially abhorrent!). A rhetorical question implying a negative reply was posed, "What is the aesthetic value of these distortions"? An editorial in the same newspaper broadened the enquiry to a consideration of the genuine value of modern art in general. John Ryan, however, wrote in the Dublin Evening Mail: 'Louis le Brocquy discovered his peculiarly individual mode of expression early in his career and courageously employed it even when doing so meant that he had to discard a style which promised a fashionable and lucrative future as a portrait painter in the traditional manner.
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He estimated that the majority of the data in some scientific fields never reaches publication. Although scientific in nature, the WWMM was part of the broader open archives and open source movements, pushes to make more and more information freely available to any user via the Internet or World Wide Web. In his CERN presentation, Murray-Rust stated that the WWMM was a "response to the expense of [scientific] journals", and he asked the rhetorical question, "Can we win the war to make data open, or will it be absorbed into the publishing and pseudo-publishing world?" Murray-Rust and his colleagues are also responsible for the development of the Chemical Mark-up Language (CML), a variant of XML intended for chemists.
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Other professionals, typified by Dr. Kenneth Zucker, the Head of the Gender Identity Service, Child, Youth, and Family Program and Psychologist-in-Chief at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, believe in behavior modification to minimize childhood gender dysphoria. Dr. Zucker asks the rhetorical question of whether it would be ethical to treat an African American child who wishes to identify as Caucasian with cosmetic surgeries to facilitate this identity, though his critics point out that gender identity is completely non-analogous to ethnic identity. He has also been criticized for statements suggesting that children with nonnormative gender might be autistic and hyperfocusing on gender. There is no one universal set of behavioral interventions designed to reduce stress in children with GID.
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He added that Swift "channels that indignation into a broader protest against the sexism and skepticism that all women face". Rosen also opined that the song's "most hard-hitting line is a plaintive rhetorical question that calls to mind a #MeToo movement slogan: #BelieveWomen". Naming "The Man" as the "most important" song Swift has ever written, Brittany Hodak of Forbes, commended that "the magic of "The Man" is not just that it captures a complex (and often misunderstood) issue so brilliantly and simply, but also that it conveys to Swift's female fans that even she isn't above the BS that so many of us are regularly subjected to". Hodak concluded that she is "hopeful that Swift’s spotlight on the issue will spark a national conversation about sexism, power, and equality".
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Over the next few months, Victor proves himself to the team, particularly to Chase Stein, in battle to make up for his alternate future self. He falls out of grace for a short while after Nico Minoru discovers that the second Pride has tapped into Victor's circuits and was using him to spy on the team. After the Runaways' fight with the new Pride, Victor begins a physical relationship with Nico; he confesses to have initiated it because he harbors romantic feelings for her, but Nico claims to have participated as a way to escape her survivor's guilt regarding the death of Gertrude Yorkes. However, Victor still attempts a rescue when he discovers Chase has Nico hostage, but is easily shut down when Chase asks him a rhetorical question designed to overload Victor's circuits.
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Adelard ("very elegant but also commonplace") and Henry of Huntington are both noted in Fleming 2003. An aspect of contempt for this world reflects upon the ephemerality of all life, expressed in the literary rhetorical question of ubi sunt. Even as worldly a pope as Innocent III could write an essay "On the Misery of the Human Condition", De miseria humanae conditionis, which Geoffrey Chaucer is reputed to have rendered in English, in a translation now lost.Companion. The theme had political ramifications within the Roman Church, as it was inextricably bound up with questions of apostolic povertyJan G. J. van den Eijnden discusses the controversial wealth of the Church in Thomas Aquinas' day, Poverty on the Way to God: Thomas Aquinas on evangelical poverty 1994:8 ff et passim.
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Charles Boner was the first to translate "The Princess and the Pea" into English, working from a German translation that had increased Andersen's lone pea to a trio of peas in an attempt to make the story more credible, an embellishment also added by another early English translator, Caroline Peachey. Boner's translation was published as "The Princess on the Peas" in A Danish Story-Book in 1846. Boner has been accused of missing the satire of the tale by ending with the rhetorical question, "Now was not that a lady of exquisite feeling?" rather than Andersen's joke of the pea being placed in the Royal Museum. Boner and Peachey's work established the standard for English translations of the fairy tales, which, for almost a century, as Wullschlager notes, "continued to range from the inadequate to the abysmal".
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In the year 1926 the astrophysicist Robert Emden published the article Aberration und Relativitätstheorie in the journal Naturwissenschaften. (14. Jahrgang, Heft 16) In this article he states that the direction of a light ray isn't influenced by the motion of the star or by the motion of Earth.R. Emden's (rhetorical) question "How will the direction of the light rays of stars incident upon Earth be influenced by the motion of Earth and the motion (not the location) of the star at the time of emission?" is answered by him with "Not at all." At that time, the opponents of the special theory of relativity reasoned that the theory must be flawed, because it would state that the stellar aberration would depend on the relative velocity of the star — which would be in contradiction to observation — and R. Emden's article explains that the special theory of relativity does not predict this.
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However, he had a forgettable tournament, scoring one run in his one innings and conceding 44 runs off eight overs. He was, however, a regular for various province teams in the President's Trophy tournament, but after 1994-95 he struggled to get regular first team cricket. However, after taking eight wickets for 63 runs in a match in the Sri Lankan Cricket Premier League, his bowling figures were mentioned in the Notes by the Editor in the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2004—not particularly because of the achievement, but because of the uncanny number of initials, which prompted the rhetorical question: "Is this an elaborate joke, along the lines of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?". Amanugama had also been mentioned in the 1992 Almanack, with match figures of 12 for 91 against Sebastianites, but then under the name of R. K. B. Amanugama, which according to the Wisden editor seemed to confirm the joke.
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Mussolini, circa 1920 In the same way, Mussolini argued that Italy was right to follow an imperialist policy in Africa because he saw all black people as "inferior" to whites. Mussolini claimed that the world was divided into a hierarchy of races (stirpe, though this was justified more on cultural than on biological grounds), and that history was nothing more than a Darwinian struggle for power and territory between various "racial masses". Mussolini saw high birthrates in Africa and Asia as a threat to the "white race" and he often asked the rhetorical question "Are the blacks and yellows at the door?" to be followed up with "Yes, they are!". Mussolini believed that the United States was doomed as the American blacks had a higher birthrate than whites, making it inevitable that the blacks would take over the United States to drag it down to their level.
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As the Soviet Union grew increasingly alarmed by Dubček's liberal reforms in 1968 (Prague Spring), Husák, originally Dubček's ally and a moderate supporter of the reform programme, began calling for caution. After the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia in August, Husák participated in the Czechoslovak-Soviet negotiations between the kidnapped Dubček and Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow. Husák changed course and became a leader among those party members calling for the reversal of Dubček's reforms. An account for his pragmatism was given in one of his official speeches in Slovakia after the 1968 events, during which he ventured a rhetorical question, asking where the opponents of the Soviet Union wished to find allies of Czechoslovakia that might come to support the country against Soviet troops. Supported by Moscow, he was appointed leader of the Communist Party of Slovakia in as early as August 1968, and he succeeded Dubček as first secretary (title changed to general secretary in 1971) of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in April 1969.
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The more radical Liberals however such as David Lloyd George and John Ellis were prepared to raise the matter in Parliament and to harass the government on the issue, which they duly did. St John Brodrick, the Conservative secretary of state for war, first defended the government's policy by arguing that the camps were purely "voluntary" and that the interned Boers were "contented and comfortable," but was somewhat undermined as he had no firm statistics to back up his argument, so when his "voluntary" argument proved untenable, he resorted to the "military necessity" argument and stated that everything possible was being done to ensure satisfactory conditions in the camps. Hobhouse published a report in June 1901 that contradicted Brodrick's claim, and Lloyd George then openly accused the government of "a policy of extermination" directed against the Boer population. The same month Liberal opposition party leader Campbell- Bannerman took up the assault and answered the rhetorical question "When is a war not a war?" with his own rhetorical answer "When it is carried on by methods of barbarism in South Africa," referring to those same camps and the policies that created them.
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