His parenthetical question is asked sardonically, of course, but the more I think about it the more my anger and frustration smolder.
When a high school music teacher in Tempe texted State Representative Kelly Townsend, a conservative Republican, asking to explore common ground, she replied, "When the teachers denounce the socialists in charge of your Red for Ed movement, and parenthetically I wondered why they chose the color red, then we can sit down and talk". The teacher posted the exchange on Facebook.
Grayling also has a tendency to insert dismissive parenthetical comments, such as to ask whether "faith-led institutions of higher education" is an oxymoron, or to wonder whether "postmodern thought" is a "contradiction".
I also recalled, parenthetically, that when my father was asked, not very long before his death, what three books he considered indispensable, he named them in climactic order, concluding with "The Original of Laura" — could he have ever seriously contemplated its destruction?
Peter bluntly asks Yeshua, "Who said that?" The chorus answers parenthetically: "Dialogue of the Savior, Verse 37".
And parenthetically: "(You'll also have to read an ad for a vaccine against genital warts. Ask your doctor if it's right for you)." The price of such diversions is, in Mr. Siegel's succinct appraisal, devastating.
"If there's any questions you wanna ask, just ask me," he says, with a laugh that seems to carry a parenthetical "best of luck with that".
Parenthetically, every time we see the latest statistics about the sorry state of employee engagement, perhaps we should ask whether those employees are working in traditional offices or working remotely.
with much consistency, given parenthetically).
Parenthetically, the search was long and tedious.
Blake also mentions this parenthetically in his piece.
