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  • What is in the air there in Washington, what is in the water? What is wrong with them? This is not a rhetorical question. I think it is unspoken question No.1 as Americans look at so many of the individuals in our government. What is wrong with them?

  • Art has always been this--pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric--whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear.

    Samuel Beckett, Ruby Cohn (1983). “Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment”, Riverrun Pr
  • How many roads must a man walk down?

    Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.132, Pan Macmillan
  • When will all the rhetorical questions end?

    Funny   Humor   Ends  
  • O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.

  • All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

    Wine   Order   Medicine  
    "Fictional character: Reg". "Life of Brian", www.imdb.com. 1979.
  • Can I ask you a personal question"? Of all the rhetorical questions in the world, that is the one which irritates me most with its simultaneous gesture towards and denial of the trespass that is about to follow.

    Denial   World   Gestures  
    Kamila Shamsie (2005). “Broken Verses”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The only tactic liberals have is to try to intimidate people into thinking that the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party is not a racist movement, period! If it were, why would the straw polls keep showing that the black guy is winning? That's a rhetorical question. Let me state it: The black guy keeps winning.

  • Whoop-de-do," said Ram. "What?" "I'm celebrating." "Was that irony or loss of mental function?" asked the expendable. "Was that a rhetorical questions, a bit of humor, or a sign that you are losing confidence in me?" "I have no confidence in you, Ram," said the expendable. "Well, thanks." "You're welcome.

    Thank You   Loss   Rams  
    Orson Scott Card (2011). “Pathfinder”, p.64, Simon and Schuster
  • What have the Romans ever done for us?

    "Early On, Comedian John Cleese Says, He Had Good Timing But Little Else". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. October 16, 2015.
  • The idea that we are the gods now, and we are doing things that our ancestors think are god-like is not a rhetorical question. You know what I mean? We really are as gods.

    Mean   Thinking   Ideas  
    Source: alejandrotrojas.com
  • What am I to do with you?" Redd asked. "M-maybe you could-" Jack began. The Cat raised a paw. "I know." "It was a rhetorical question, fools! You don't answer it! Since when do I need help making anyone suffer?

    Cat   Suffering   Needs  
  • If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?

  • Redd's face contorted with a sudden realization. "How could I have been so stupid?" The Cat was trying to decide if this was a rhetorical question when she roared, "It's a construct!" With a dismiissive swing of Redd's arm, Alyss and her army began to shimmer, the billon points of engery that formed them monentarily visible before exploding apart into nothing. Redd scoped the queendom with her imagination's eye. "Where are you, Alyss? Where is my dear little niece?

    Niece   Stupid   Cat  
  • All rhetorical questions are accusations.

  • I've been around so long, I can remember when it was a rhetorical question to ask, "Is the pope Catholic?" Now it's a legit question.

    "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.
  • How many roads must a man walk down.. Before you can call him a Man.

    'Blowin' in the Wind' (1962 song)
  • I'd finished the first two [books] and they were going to to be published, and [editor] said, "We need you to write a summary that will drive people to these books." And it took forever. I couldn't think of a thing to say. I looked at the back of other children's books that were full of giddy praise and corny rhetorical questions, you know, "Will she have a better time at summer camp than she thinks?" "How will she escape from the troll's dungeon?" All these terrible, terrible summaries of books, and I just couldn't.

    Summer   Children   Book  
    Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.
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