Page to page, paragraph to paragraph, line to line — even within single sentences — imply a question first, and then answer it second.
As novelists, we should ask or imply a question at the beginning of the story, and then we should delay the answer.
And for those of us who woke to the most awful news imaginable, they imply a question we should probably have been asking long before this happened: how do we even begin to put England – and Wales – the right way up?
(You notice I haven't told you what the invention was yet? I implied a question, and didn't answer it. You're waiting. You're wondering, what did almost no one have in 1980 that almost everyone had in 1990? You're definitely going to read the next paragraph, aren't you? Thus the principle works in a micro sense, as well as in a macro one.
The title of the National Rifle Association's monthly political magazine – America's First Freedom – implies a provocative question: Where would the freedoms of press, speech, and religion be without the bearing of arms that made such freedoms possible?
The study implies an important question: how much should age factor into clinician recommendations?
"It's a very heavy title that implies a lot of questions that may not be necessary in a genre film, but we couldn't find another title that was as efficient and beautiful".
They often have in their titles, or imply, a big question answered; or they have a flavour of self-help or how-to.
After professing her love for him, she cocked a sceptical eyebrow and asked, 'How long do you give him?' It's a question that implies a value system - a faith shared by most of the celebrated New Yorkers at the wedding, whose very presence at this event certified their citizenship in a realm that they believe is more vital and more real than any other possible world.
The question implies a gulf between art and the lumpen facts we live among.
