rhetorically
rhetorically speaking

Sometimes people ask rhetorically, Would you like to be 15 again?

He asked rhetorically what American journalists were doing about those human rights.

Although he does rhetorically pose the question "Why must one live?"

Or, rhetorically, "You must have seen a lot of yourself in her?"

Rhetorically, both sides still say they are committed to peace.

At one point she asked rhetorically, "Does the church have the right to dictate what the public can see?"

"Well," she asked rhetorically, "do any of you know where we are and how I can get out?"

At least rhetorically, the administration is giving no ground about the reach of the president's powers.

"Was I really that small," she says rhetorically, and it makes me smile.

"Are they sensitive to what's being said in Washington," one official asked rhetorically.

He had asked, rhetorically, what harm would be done if the votes were taken again, in the open.

"Can an old dog change his style," he asked rhetorically.

Management asks rhetorically, "What if we all get lost in thought - who'll be left to act?"

"In the period since then, the case for free markets has been won rhetorically.

"We're going to need them not only to be sending the right signals rhetorically to people on the outside," he said.

Root asks rhetorically, getting into the spirit of the thing.

He then asked, rhetorically, "Who would challenge that tradition as being too soft?"

Sam held up a hand before she could rhetorically rend him.

But, he asked himself rhetorically, what choice did he have?

That's the question I would rhetorically ask in defense of my nominee."

He also asked, rhetorically, "what is our guarantee against Russia?"

Others are asking themselves that question, but not rhetorically.

Rhetorically, this was his best foreign policy speech by far (it helps to pick a side).

But who, she asks rhetorically, would ever visit her in so remote a spot?

When he asked rhetorically, "Who do you want as President?"

Indeed, it may be that AT&T is just holding U-verse hostage here, rhetorically speaking.

Rhetorically speaking, Dr. Gullo is no George Bush.

'Rhetorically speaking,' Hasson said, wishing that Werry would get on with making his point in a more direct manner.

Rhetorically speaking, of course, such oratory by committee has about as much appeal as a commencement ceremony roll-call: fun for exactly the two seconds when your child is named.