Sentence examples for asks it of from inspiring English sources

But no one who knows anything about him asks it of American crime writer James Ellroy.

She asks it of herself every time she sits down to write – "What fiction ought to do" – and the answer had better be good.

You dread this question though she probably asks it of everyone, and though you have two ready-made answers.

But nearly every college instructor I know fields some variation of this question: "So, do you actually work in the summer?" My own mother asks it of me.

He asks us to pass this forgiveness on to our fellow human beings; not an easy task, yet He asks it of us and He knows that if we do that, we will find incredible peace and freedom!

Why ask it of a novelist?

Now Europe is asking that question of Greece, and Greeks are asking it of themselves.

— ask me the question on this blog and I will ask it of the person concerned.

"What are you saving it for?" Balanchine famously asked his dancers; and I ask it of the San Francisco Ballet today.

We expect female CEOs to do something that we would think is laughable if we asked it of male CEOs.

We asked it of Friends (well, I did) and Sex and the City and Seinfeld.