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a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered
he liked to make his points with rhetorical questions
How To Use rhetorical question In A Sentence
- I’m not making the case that Jonathan was objectively right in the import of his all but rhetorical question — but it can hardly be characterized as asmear. The Volokh Conspiracy » Whelan v. publius Post-Script:
- i think he was trying to make the point that – in the massacre trial, the chain of command (which is what the subtopic was at the moment in their conversation) did have something to do with the massacre (an SS general was convicted) i took a look at the video, and he does state ‘who did it†™ †the question is, was this a rhetorical question, or a statement as fact. Think Progress » Bill O’Reilly falsely smears
- This and the next rhetorical question, which seem to make the rest of the sonnet entirely unnecessary "and a good thing, too," I can hear some readers saying, suggest that the English may need to remind themselves of their natural immunity to all forms of sacerdotalism. An excursion into Victorian Protestant poetry: "Heart of Oak"
- That's not an entirely rhetorical question. Times, Sunday Times
- He could do without her rhetorical questions at five o'clock in the morning.
- Wait, that was a rhetorical question. Times, Sunday Times
- It was a statement, a rhetorical question, and just by looking at her he was sure that it had made her angry.
- MANJI: Glenn, this is what we call a rhetorical question. CNN Transcript Mar 13, 2008
- It's in keeping with the rest of this discursive, stimulating book that Kermode leaves the reader with such a provocative, rhetorical question.
- Adding to the list of rhetorical questions, why did the teenage daughter have such low standards for her boyfriend?