Sentence examples for question familiar from inspiring English sources

The road to instant imagery began with a question familiar to any parent on vacation: Are we there yet?

Stranded Viola's "What country, friend, is this?" would have been a question familiar to generations of American settlers.

This is the question familiar to anyone who has criticised organisations that view themselves as dedicated to doing good in the world.

East Asian literary tradition has raised the question of the broad and narrow definitions of poetry (a question familiar in the West from Edgar Allan Poe's advocacy of the short poem in his "Poetic Principle" [1850]).

The selection of Mr. Jackson to ask the question familiar of viewers of Capital One ads, "What's in your wallet?" is meant to evoke the provocative wallet scene with Mr. Jackson and Tim Roth in the film "Pulp Fiction".

In it, he sought to answer a question familiar to his fellow-educators: How much of what students learn in the school year do they forget during the long summer break?

Those questions, familiar to any scientist or physician who works with endurance athletes, inspired several recently published studies of the relative risks of marathon running.

Here is one of the easier questions: "FAMILIAR is the opposite of 1) friendly, 2) old, 3) strange, 4) aloof, 5) different".

The focus extended from the nature of individual perception to the influences of cultural institutions; along the way, the day centered on questions familiar to any freshman philosophy student: What is the Self?

(What of the "imbalance" between the jihadists and the girls' schools they blow up?) And Updike doesn't choose to answer any of the questions — familiar enough at a sophomore level, as is Annan's affectless remark — that he poses.

He asks the thousands of maddening questions familiar to any adult who has spent much time with a four-year-old ("Why is water wet?") and many that are unanswerable for reasons peculiar to Borne himself ("Am I a person?").