Sentence examples for the basic question why from inspiring English sources

"We almost have to start over and ask the basic question, why do we need sauces?" Kimball writes.

But to the basic question "Why is the play the way it is?" I had no answer at all.

"He still can't answer the basic question: Why not simply do what is the norm — the standard his father set — and release his returns for years back?

This is the basic question: Why should the government get to say that "phone" can mean something unrecognizably new, if citizens don't get to say that "papers" do — that they might include, for example, what amounts to a digital diary of one's doings.

It's that worry that lay behind the Salon chatter, and also the celebrated preface the Goncourt Brothers wrote, in the same year as Olympia, to their realist novel Germinie Lacerteux, where they posed the basic question: "Why have we written it?

Stavans: No, the biggest was the basic question: why me?

She writes, "Cristina, the basic questions: Why care about reducing the need for abortion?

So from now on, it would behoove the media to ask all Trump surrogates who are willing to appear on camera the basic questions: "Why hasn't Trump given a press conference in two months?

Regardless, a gawking city has greeted the new tower with a mixture of moralizing and astonishment, envy and condemnation, all sprinkled with Freudian analysis of the most basic question: Why did he do it?

As he put it, his original goal was "to see if I can make myself useful to one person even for a day," and he started by asking the most basic question: Why are people poor?

When my 8-year-old son heard about the Texas-size trash patch accumulating in the Pacific, he asked me a basic question: "Why doesn't somebody go pick it up?" The long answer is complicated, involving, for example, the difficulty of corralling and extracting trash from the water without hurting marine life.