At one point, as the truth about St. Nicholas threatens to come out, a reporter asks the most pertinent question: "Will this hurt our relations with Spain?" A more traditional serial killer — hulking, human, dressed in work clothes and with a vacant stare — is the starting point for Navot Papushado and Aharon Keshales's "Rabies".
How they entered the supply chain is perhaps a bigger, more difficult but the most pertinent question to ask.
But what is probably the most pertinent question is how an individual's personal microbial "signature" relates to health and disease.
It took a quietly-spoken, sari-clad, elderly Indian woman to ask the most pertinent question about open government.
The most pertinent question posed by "Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius," a high-minded, lethally dull biography of the legendary golfer Bobby Jones, is whether a smidgen of the box-office magic of "The Passion of the Christ" has rubbed off on its star, Jim Caviezel.
The most pertinent question for me is: how - if at all - did Shauna's intimate relationship with Nathan influence her involvement in the offending?
This may be a worthwhile thing to know for broader ethical or policy or tactical reasons, but it is not the most pertinent question when judging the action against our existing military laws.
Lawyers' arguments aside, here is the most pertinent question before her: What are the Olympics really worth, without the meeting of high ideals and athletes willing to stand up and sacrifice for a dream?
Many Republicans and political analysts say the most pertinent question about Mr. Giuliani is whether polls showing him at or near the top of the presidential primary field reflect support that is broad but thin.
Mr. Stephanopoulos poses the most pertinent question of the 90-minute film: "Is the era of the war room dead?" He wonders aloud whether the concept has been surpassed or transformed by subsequent campaigns.
Which poses the most pertinent question: What are we doing to protect our skies, to develop innate immunity and multivalent vaccines, and to carry the war to the enemy?
