The phrase "cutting questions" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in any context where someone is asking questions that are direct and to the point—questions intended to reveal facts or elicit information without any additional small talk or pleasantries. For example: "The lawyer asked a series of cutting questions to establish the witness's credibility."
Suddenly he'll ask you a cutting question about yourself, and you realise he's been watching you the whole time".
Mr. Lacovara promised to work through the weekend cutting his questions.
Tesla stock was little changed after the earnings announcement but fell during a conference call with analysts, when Musk began cutting analysts' questions short, costing Tesla over $2bn in market capitalization.
The next day, when Minaya addressed the Mets' inactivity at the nonwaiver trade deadline, Horwitz was standing so close to Minaya that they looked like Siamese twins, and Horwitz tried cutting off questions after only a few minutes.
Lebanon's renewed crisis, cutting across questions of sectarian tension in the Middle East, conflict with Israel and Hezbollah's power in the country, pits the movement against its foes in a stalemate over an international tribunal investigating the assassination of Rafik Hariri, a billionaire and a former prime minister, in February 2005.
In a terse conference call with journalists – the bank avoided face-to-face encounters, citing transport difficulties in London as a result of the Olympics – the bank's chairman, Marcus Agius, refused to provide more details, cutting off questions with a curt "enough".
Because of their undefined physical scale, however, it not clear whether they in fact simulate ripples (bedforms) or dunes (landforms), raising fundamental cross-cutting questions regarding the difference between aeolian dunes, impact ripples, and subaqueous (current) ripples and dunes.
With so many cross-cutting questions—"will UKIP gift Tory seats to Labour?", "how will the Lib Dems hold up in the south?", will more local-champion MPs hang on to seats they would otherwise lose?"—it might be past breakfast time on May 8th before the result is clear.But that is chiefly a problem for psephologists.
But cutting raises bigger questions for drug policy.
