"A lot we were able to answer, instead of asking him questions, by just listening to his music".
Pollsters working in the Middle East give interviewers special training to overcome respondents' tendency to guess the "right" answer instead of express their true feelings.
(Sometimes, a psychiatrist is the answer instead of an allergist or a lawyer, as when an experienced second baseman suddenly develops an inability of throw to first base).
"That's the question," Van Gundy said, "everybody wants to answer instead of saying they were very, very good when he was here, minus a championship, and now they're pretty good.
Yes, I know, Obama has many such initiatives, but he has not made them the centerpiece of his campaign, or highlighted them in his commercials, or tied them together into a compelling package that gets people out of their chairs, saying: "Yes, he's got the answer!" Instead of campaigning on how good is his plan, he has campaigned on how bad is Romney's.
When she filed to take the bar exam in 1991, she applied for extra time, a computer, permission to circle the right answer — instead of filling in a dot on a sheet that would be read by a machine — and a place to take the test other than the cavernous Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.
"We came to Africa with suitcases full of answers instead of suitcases full of questions".
You should look to it for answers, instead of demanding them from us, the scapegoats.
The commissioners may not have gotten all the answers they sought, but they were genuinely trying to get answers, instead of preening for the cameras.
Google now shows answers instead of just links if you search something like "March Madness," "weather" or even "my flight," in which case it can pull flight information from users' Gmail accounts.
The book's title and theme refer to her realization that she, like so many people, was waiting for someone to provide the answers instead of looking inside herself.
