(If the missus should see this, the question is purely rhetorical).

Coming from our elderly production manager, the question was purely rhetorical.

So I decided that component of the order was purely rhetorical.

She took this to be a purely rhetorical question.

It is a purely rhetorical question, because not only do doctors without patients exist, they thrive.

They are, or were, a purely rhetorical, as opposed to a practical, force.

Which means we may be witnessing the advent of the world's first purely rhetorical technology.

He didn't expect an answer; he was posing a purely rhetorical question.

This was a purely rhetorical question, since the boy plainly couldn't talk.

It is now time to move from words to actions so that we do not just carry on making purely rhetorical statements.