All questions inspired by my recent trip to Corpus Christi.

But questions like these have already inspired at least one inquiry this year.

And maybe, even when the questions do not inspire any immediately discernable enlightenment, there is something ultimately useful about the process.

The question of whether slam can rise to the level of art inspires great debate.

This question has inspired a cottage industry of conspiracy theorists.

The question has inspired commercials, essays, videos, even a sermon.

The ethnic factor and questions of civil rights also might have inspired thoughtful treatment.

The political question inspired a theological debate about God's government of human affairs.

"The question you ask about someone like him is, 'Were your students so inspired that they went on and became eminent themselves?' "

It was as if that simple question had inspired a newfound respect for the man who had rescued her.