Rapid questioning can lead to confusion and inaccuracy in court proceedings.
He describes the ideal lesson as involving blackboard, rapid questioning, some simple jesting, anecdote, disquisitions and allusion if possible to current events.
A rapid questioning technique is required to encourage respondents to give their first 'gut reaction' response to each query.
"I'm nervous," Jennifer told her coach, John Cleary, with rapid hand signs, questioning whether she should take part.
Sitting for a taping of the show with his wife, Ann, Mr. Romney indulged in a rapid-fire round of questioning, revealing facts like his guilty pleasure (peanut butter sandwiches and chocolate milk) and his favorite actor (Gene Hackman).
But after a morning of aggressive, rapid-fire questioning, the lead prosecutor, Steven Nuzzi, attacked Mr. Salley's flip-flopping stories.
Mr. Fisher had answers, but he struggled to compress them into a phrase short enough to survive rapid-fire questioning from the justices.
For all of the rapid-fire questioning, he is guardedly optimistic, and said that his initial impression of Amtrak's management has been "very, very favorable," even as he estimates the railroad's budget proposal could be cut drastically.
But it is the similarities between the medieval prosecutorial strategies — play good cop, bad cop; instill a sense of futility; use rapid-fire questioning — and the United States Army interrogation manual that are chilling.
When Scalia became a Justice, in 1986, the Court sessions were often somnolent affairs, but his rapid-fire questioning spurred his colleagues to try to keep pace, and, as Roberts said, in a tribute to Scalia on his twenty-fifth anniversary as a Justice, "the place hasn't been the same since".
Thomas has occasionally offered explanations for his reticence, primarily claiming that the rapid-fire questioning practiced by modern Supreme Court justices undermine the value of oral arguments, and make it difficult to listen to the arguments being presented to the court.
