"That's a pretty cosmic question to answer on only one drink."

Yet this is also a man who for the first time has applied his native shrewdness to cosmic questions.

He told his skull story to a barmaid, who began firing off those cosmic questions.

I asked Marlise what would happen if an eight-year-old got at it, but she's not willing to consider cosmic questions.

This year's anniversary raises not only cosmic questions but also one that is quite prosaic: where was the airplane born?

Then, the cosmic question: who was helping whom?

Nearly all of them have opinions on the cosmic question of the day: Kerry or Bush?

But Mr. Saleh is not particularly engaged by the cosmic local questions of the past 10 years.

She was a stubbornly earth-bound person, uninterested in the cosmic questions raised by the pyramid's presence.

As journalists will do, Hal saved the cosmic question for the end: Did my great aunt ever regret taking the soldier into her home?