Page to page, paragraph to paragraph, line to line — even within single sentences — imply a question first, and then answer it second.
As novelists, we should ask or imply a question at the beginning of the story, and then we should delay the answer.
And for those of us who woke to the most awful news imaginable, they imply a question we should probably have been asking long before this happened: how do we even begin to put England – and Wales – the right way up?
(You notice I haven't told you what the invention was yet? I implied a question, and didn't answer it. You're waiting. You're wondering, what did almost no one have in 1980 that almost everyone had in 1990? You're definitely going to read the next paragraph, aren't you? Thus the principle works in a micro sense, as well as in a macro one.
The title of the National Rifle Association's monthly political magazine – America's First Freedom – implies a provocative question: Where would the freedoms of press, speech, and religion be without the bearing of arms that made such freedoms possible?
Whether its power to grant tax exemptions as an incident to the exercise of powers specifically granted by the Constitution can ever, in any circumstances, extend beyond the constitutional immunity of federal agencies which courts have implied, is a question which need not now be determined.
The study implies an important question: how much should age factor into clinician recommendations?
His mottoes were "Never go to sleep with a hypothesis untested" and "Every problem can be solved with the things in the room at the time". The ultimate secret of Land's greatness, McElheny's excellent book implies, was that a question only interested him if its answer was unknown.
That preliminary session broke up without new meetings scheduled, and Gates and Ballmer implied in a question-and-answer session with financial analysts that the near-term prospects were dim.
They often have in their titles, or imply, a big question answered; or they have a flavour of self-help or how-to.
