Sentence examples for interrogate rather than from inspiring English sources

It promised to "interrogate rather than celebrate the past" and encouraged us, "in a year of national introspection", to "ask urgent questions about the safely guarded narrative of our nation".

Throughout, Fincher's talents as a film-maker are never in question, but you can't help but wish he'd use them to interrogate rather than lend credence to Gone Girl's most sinister implication: that its regressive tale of psychosexual anxiety is less a horror story than a state-of-the-nation address.

This device serves notice that Wohead – a skinny, London-based Texan with a wedge of long hair flopping over the close-cropped sides of his head – will not be imitating Elvis, and that his own Comeback Special will interrogate rather than duplicate the original.

This leaves team members feeling interrogated rather than engaged.

Muñoz was the first person to use the term "terrorist drag" to describe the work of Davis in particular, the way she interrogated rather than obscured her cultural otherness.

Muñoz was the first person to use the term "terrorist drag" to describe the work of Davis — in particular, the way she interrogated rather than obscured her cultural otherness.

This season's smartest move was to interrogate empathy rather than treating it as a cure-all.

Official poll observers who have been improperly trained by the groups they represent and think it's their job to interrogate voters rather than just watch.

That is, metamodernism puts entire realities into conversation, and implicitly interrogates creators rather than merely their creations or the spectacle of creation, requiring of us an entirely new set of terminologies, critical temperaments, and theorizations.

The introduction of lifetime filtering opened a door to increase contrast on FCS curves by selectively interrogating species rather than photons.

In many other countries, however, legislators are expected to interrogate the executive rather than to win promotion to it; the parliamentary committees that scrutinise intelligence are not hand-picked by the head of government; and suspicion of state power is found across the political spectrum, rather than – as in Britain – concentrated in a shrunken liberal centreground.