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Searching question.

A searching question goes straight to the heart of the subject matter, possibly requiring an answer with a degree of honesty that the other person finds uncomfortable.

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Delingpole then says it is time for a "searching question", and asks Gove what his favourite scene is in Game of Thrones.

His first ball, a swinging yorker, asks a searching question of Rogers, who manages an inside edge en route to his pads.

A searching question embodied in the very structure of the film is how a historical trauma like the Armenian catastrophe should be represented in the movies and television.

Each of the front-runners has his personal flaws and attributes, but it so happens that the candidature of each also requires the Tories to ask themselves a searching question about what their party now stands for.

For Shel Wallman, a co-editor of the Jewish Sports Review, the searching question, if rather high profile, was not uncommon: should Ralph Branca, historic goat, get to join the magazine's list of official Jewish athletes?

From the outset of his tenure as vice president, Biden had come to view himself as the one who asked the unpleasant and searching question — who "upset the apple cart," as he put it.

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The security representative asked me a series of searching questions and came back two weeks later for another session of questioning, stemming from their inquiries into my previous answers.

Impress could also ask itself searching questions.

Ask searching questions about your attitude and flexibility.

The crime had raised searching questions about racism in Britain.

I wish I had asked more probing and searching questions".

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