Sentence examples for he turned a question from inspiring English sources

Afterward, he turned a question about the increased attention into a Sally Field moment.

It was important, he thought, to get a big one right at the start with his car-door opening, and in paring it down, he turned a question ("Does it detract from chivalry.... ......) into a statement.

Darling was in attendance, and he turned a question about his humble and often self-deprecating nature as a team broadcaster into a chance to tease one of his partners in the booth.

He turned a question on how this loss felt into an explanation that today was still a good day because he had been able to meet and "bring a smile to" a young man who had suffered a traumatic brain injury while playing football.

Bob Katter, who is already entertaining enough to watch on screen due to being the literal physical embodiment of every country Queensland stereotype, halfway through an interview switched from mirth to anger as he turned a question about the marriage equality postal survey result into a furious rant about the country's unaddressed crocodile crisis.

Early on, he turns a question back on Letterman, asking how the former late-night host had spent the early days of his retirement—"Did you just brood in the dark somewhere?" Yet after that first back-and-forth, Letterman makes it clear that he'll be the one asking questions, and the discussion proceeds from there.

He deftly turned a question back on his interviewers, with a "like you mentioned," to begin one response.

He turned a reporter's questions back to her.

He does extreme thought like other people do extreme sports, so that he turns a simple question into an exercise in philosophical abstraction.

Unwilling to brook criticism, he turned an icy face to those who questioned him, recalled Tom Angotti, a professor of urban planning at Hunter College who opposed the project.

He managed to turn a question from Mr. Stringer about tax returns to his advantage.