Asked if Strauss-Kahn could hypothetically ask for the July deadline for candidates to be set aside and stand in the primaries, a party spokesman said: "It's complicated".
If your friend hypothetically asks you what you think it would be like if you dated, then duh he's giving you a big hint that he wants to date you.
"Hypothetically," I asked, "what would this dad need to do in order to win back authority in his own home?" My friend fixed me with an appraising look.
"Would Henry Kravis buy a $5 million apartment and say, 'It's right over the Home Depot?' " Marian McEvoy asked hypothetically.
How about, he was asked hypothetically, the notion that many people won't be able to think of it apart from the passions surrounding the war in Iraq? "My thought processes never went there," he said.
Mel Stottlemyre, the Yankees' pitching coach, was asked hypothetically about Clemens: If he is the opening day starter, did he earn it based on how he pitched in the second half of the year?
When asked, hypothetically, about a sex offender living so close to an elementary school, Duane Lumpkins, a chief deputy probation officer, said, "The probation officer is probably taking steps to change that because we're making sure that they follow the law".
"How could traffic drop in the city that has the highest employment growth in the country?" Gurley asked, hypothetically.
The questions are not asked hypothetically or just as a mental exercise in that sense, trivial notations could be devised for any artform (Goodman, Elgin 1988, Chap. 7).
Asked, hypothetically, whether he'd choose to invest only in New York companies or in every other part of the world (including Silicon Valley), Wilson said he'd have to go with everywhere else because "there's so much interesting happening".
