Sentence examples for * the questioner of from inspiring English sources

Elihu Vedder's "The Questioner of the Sphinx" (1863) shows a dark-skinned traveller crouched by the head of a sphinx that emerges from the sand in which it has been submerged for centuries.

"But why don't we just change the place, to show that Islam is not there to threaten everybody, that Islam is a religion of peace?" The questioner, of course, was referring to Mr. Abdul Rauf's proposed Islamic community center and mosque in Lower Manhattan, two blocks from the former World Trade Center site.

Around the time Albert Bierstadt painted "Looking Down Yosemite Valley" and Edouard Manet exhibited "Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe" ("Luncheon on the Grass"), the American artist Elihu Vedder, who had never visited Egypt, created a brooding, emphatically plain canvas, "The Questioner of the Sphinx".

The third, and surprising, decision-making style on view was that of the questioner.

When he finished, Jesus asked the questioner one of his own: "Which of the people on the road was a neighbor to the man who was robbed?" Sheepishly, the questioner responds, "the one who showed mercy".

At a Des Moines event last week, King was asked if he identified as a white supremacist, and responded by kicking the questioner out of the room.

These are tough questions because they expose the questioner to the smirk of the all-knowing creator of the product.

Perhaps, she said, the questioner was thinking of the oiran?

He actually scolded the questioner for questioning Mueller's integrity.

"WonderstAnding" is a termysteryd by Brisn McLaren.

(This is Bayard's second allusion to Darwin, the ultimate questioner of origins).