Sentence examples for means of asking from inspiring English sources

If, then, a Spinozan theory of imagination could be of any use to us here, it would be as a means of asking critical questions of the kind that bring us back to earth in the way Benjamin's doctrine of Truth tends to prevent us.

Pilots typically only use word of mouth or other low-tech means of asking around if anyone wants to fly with them.

We suppose that patients who feel that they want to be asked for explicit consent can see this procedure as a means of asking consent, while others who do not care about their residual tissue, can easily put the information aside.

Mastertapes reviews an artist's important album (the one usually called "seminal" by music journalists) by the simple means of Wilson asking the artist questions about it, in front of a live audience.

That means, of course, asking an essentially empirical question: does this rule of inclusion or exclusion in fact increase the likelihood that fact finders, given what they are actually like, will achieve knowledge about disputed matters of fact (i.e., does it maximize veritistic value).

Four elderly spinsters, without means of support, asked to be dismissed.

"The work interrogates the condition of difference in both art and world contexts: does Axel meet resistance because of his incongruous visual identity, or his transgressive means of investigation?" asks Barrois, whose project is updated on a dedicated Instagram page.

I mean, he kind of asked for it, but that was pretty brutal.

Western Union operator gives a message over the phone spelling out most of the words, and the receiver of the message explaining what it means or asking questions of the operator, or making remarks about the message in between stops in the message.

Learning to apply these tones accurately can be tricky for a foreigner at first and sometimes leads to hilarious mistakes (I once accidentally asked a very proper Chinese lady at a dinner party if she had ever sat on a flying penis, instead of what I meant to ask her, if she had ever flown on an aircraft).

"If accountability means asking more of students, it also means asking more of teachers as well, by challenging our teachers to keep learning and improving and putting their own skills to the test," Mr. Lazio said.