Sentence examples for speculative question from inspiring English sources

"That's a very speculative question.

Dearlove said: "That's a speculative question, [but] there should have been".

"That's a speculative question that I am going to decline to answer," he said.

But this is a speculative question that is focused on a scenario we do not see happening.

Indeed, discussing the matter as a mere speculative question, and looking at it apart from the pressing necessities of the country, it may almost be affirmed that the session just concluded has been far more favourable for the permanent growth of free-trade principles, than even a course of legislative action.

Kip Thorne, a theorist at the Caltech who consulted on the movie Interstellar that used wormholes to travel through time, responding to a speculative question.

"I don't answer speculative questions," said Merkel firmly.

This work is written in the characteristic form of a dialogue, allowing Diderot to range free with speculative questions rather than attempt firm answers.

What appears, at first, to be a patient tolerance for Oxenberg's cameras develops into something strangely and passionately symbiotic: as Oxenberg asks Mae speculative questions (as about the afterlife), Mae — one of whose lifelong torments, Oxenberg says, was the failure of those closest to her to pay attention to her — blossoms, despite her frailty and her pain, in the spotlight.

Zhu from childhood displayed a genuine interest in natural phenomena and in raising speculative questions.

It was just one of many speculative questions that political journalists like me ask in the hope that just occasionally they might get an answer.