The parable isn't trying to answer such a small-minded question.
For days an annoyingly simple-minded question has been nagging me: what makes a person - me, for one - want to write while others don't?
On reflection this sounds like such a horribly narrow-minded question, considering the themes and subject matter you involve your readers in.
When Nye asked Gallo a high-minded question about the ages of ice and of water and their relation to the origin of life on Earth, Mirman said, "Yeah — where did life begin?
So I conclude that, having asked a simple-minded question, I've got a simple-minded answer: some people descend from that first storyteller and some don't - so if having lived a story, you feel compelled to examine it in public, he's the reason.
Is it an open-ended, open-minded question?
I stared blankly at my notebook full of high-minded questions.
August professors, in amused response to his seemingly simple-minded questions, would postulate ad nauseam while he dusted their diplomas.
"Never Say Die" raises tough-minded questions about poverty in old age, dementia, end-of-life care and assisted suicide.
The appeal of this book is that it doesn't trouble to answer such literal-minded questions.
We'll ask the expected high-minded questions about favorite novels, greatest living authors and the books remembered most from childhood.
