Sentence examples for a kind of questioning from inspiring English sources

THE 20th century's experience with the dubious aesthetics of Fascism, Nazism and Communism left several clear lessons: works of art commissioned by governments are generally mediocre; creativity does not flourish inside ideological boundaries; artistic expression is by definition a kind of questioning.

"From road trips to more metaphysical journeys," the photographers Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb wrote in an introduction to the book, "from isolated northern towns to more ethnically diverse southern cities, from Norway's elderly to its youth, what these NJP projects share is a kind of questioning of the complicated issues that face Norway today".

"I went through a deep period, a kind of questioning of my priorities," Iñárritu said.

The work ends with a kind of Schnittkean questioning with a repeated rising harmonic figure in the piano.

The writer William S. Burroughs once contemplated "a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork," and "Fast Food Nation" aims to produce a similar moment — to shock, to demystify and to force a kind of horrified, questioning clarity.

He said: "We're approaching it from a similar but almost opposite perspective – because with someone who already has a public persona, we're kind of questioning what that means, where identity and ideas of the self actually lie.

"When Leah came back from the wedding, whatever happened happened... Leah had brought up to a very, very close friend of hers -- at our house, in private -- you know, 'I just think it's really weird how involved Tom is with the upper levels of the church.' She just started kind of questioning a little bit what was going on and just... how involved he was with the upper level people.

I couldn't read these without remembering David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, published last year, which also deals with a post-apocalyptic future and the breakdown of civilisation.' Novelists have, of course, been conjuring up these sorts of visions for centuries; but, as Angel continues, 'Perhaps the uncertainties of a post-11 September world have lent this kind of questioning more urgency.

For a feminist of the generation galvanized by the abortion rights movement, this kind of questioning signifies real courage.

"Before off-season training, I was kind of questioning myself," he said.

The Joint Service Committee on Military Justice, which reviews potential changes to military law, is considering a proposal that would give sexual assault victims in Article 32 hearings new protections to shield them from the kind of questioning the midshipman experienced.