Then come the stories, one more harrowing than the next, followed by a simple question: Will you stay?
We became incredibly excited by a simple question: What would happen if we gave people the freedom to create their own social experiences online?
It was inspired by a simple question: What if there are well-researched areas of math that could simplify, or at least systematize, the fraught process of redistricting?
The daughter herself said she was moved by a simple question — how would you want to be treated if you were the one getting out of jail?
Felix Conway is explaining the way of the world to a political aspirant who is baffled by a simple question: Once you take over a political party, how do you get the money to run it?
And so I was barely launched into a glib discourse on dark energy, extra dimensions and the fate of matter in black holes when I was brought crashing back to earth by a simple question.
The merit of any moment in San Francisco could be measured by a simple question: was the beauty of the city outweighing its annoying citizens?" But the success of Kobek's bleak book is a story of hope and entrepreneurial pluck.
Long-delayed, after-the-event, hair-splitting arguments about conformity with the letter of tax law will be replaced by a simple question from the Inland Revenue: did you tell us or did you not?
New scientific experiments can be inspired by a simple question, and in the case of John Mercer, that question was, "So, John, do toning shoes work?" Dr. Mercer, a professor of biomechanics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, was talking with a friend who runs an athletic shoe store.
She is motivated, she says, by a simple question: "How do you give life to non-living things?" Like the abalone collecting its materials in shallow water and then laying them down like bricks in a wall, Belcher takes basic chemical elements from the natural world: carbon, calcium, silicon, zinc.
