Sentence examples for threatening questions from inspiring English sources

Nicholson is rubbing the boy's back as he asks subtly threatening questions.

Mr. Nicholson is rubbing the boy's back as he asks subtly threatening questions, and the boy is almost slumped over as he sits there.

During that case, Ms. McCann said, she received calls and threatening questions similar to those she gets now: "How do you sleep at night?" Ms. McCann considers it her Catholic, as well as constitutional, duty to care for society's castoffs.

But Mr Clinton also refused to give straight answers to less threatening questions.

They put a lot of accusatory or threatening questions out there.

A second Pakistani author said that at several conferences and seminars in recent years, representatives from the spy agency made their presence known by asking threatening questions.

Even now, her peace of mind is threatened by questions of regret if not guilt.

His political career is threatened by questions about whether he improperly enriched himself at taxpayers' expense, so how does he defend himself?

Bowen [ 20] and Lesky [ 21] suggest that students learn by teaching and may feel less threatened asking questions that reveal a lack of knowledge of a fellow student than of a preceptor.

Unlike the appraisal literature outside medicine, ROs did not seem to find probing or challenging questions threatening [ 15], instead finding this constructive and promoting reflection.

They quickly detained the chief organiser, Liu Xiaobo, a veteran Beijing activist, and threatened or questioned dozens of other signatories.