Sentence examples for the perfect question from inspiring English sources

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She grabbed the mike stand, and Mr. Wallerstein adopted the perfect question mark pose with his guitar.

With three years' experience as a quizmaster Mr. Balthrop has developed a formula for the perfect question: "At least one person in the room should know the answer, at least half the people in the room should be able to make an educated guess, and everyone in the room should find the answer interesting".

Members of the fifth estate may like to think that if they could just craft the perfect question, like Matlock with a press pass, they would trip the speaker up in his lies or obfuscations, unravelling the entire story in front of our eyes.

Finally, there's not much you can do when you have the perfect question all ready to ask and some big-shot asks it first.

Jim Lehrer then asked the perfect question: "Mr. Smith, do we have a lawless world?" Mr. Smith: "We have a lawless world, and I believe very much that the United States needs to stand up for the rule of law".

We met on the playground after dropping off our girls at school and once we'd hugged hello she asked me, "How was Stevie Wonder?" This was the perfect question!

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Who ever loved learning because they asked the professor a perfect question and the professor gave a perfect answer?

The result would make a perfect question for the third-grade math test: "What's the fastest way to turn an 8-5 definto into an 8-5 victory?" An important civics lesson when stacking a board: it's best to be unfailingly polite.

7.00pm BST Here's a perfect question to sum up the debate: Why do you think there is such a lack of LGBT characters in YA fiction?

No. That's not what I tend to find interesting – I enjoy the process, and the argument, and the flow of ideas of an interview, I don't think there's a "perfect question", much less a "perfect answer that I wish somebody had asked me the question for".

I thought it a perfect question: I didn't challenge their right to choose which body we should bury at my grandmother's funeral, and I certainly didn't threaten to disrupt the funeral ceremony, already in progress.

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