interrogatory

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It's a helpful interrogatory narrative device which allows the show to jump back and forward in time, as Savile reflects on his life and career.

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2023

It had the coughs, the stutters, the surreal diversions in discussions of cats, the reveals — because it was interrogatory in nature.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2021

Unsurprisingly, I turned first to essays, that interrogatory genre in which we confront a consciousness in conversation with itself.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2020

Separately, at the Senate impeachment trial Thursday, Warren posed a question that, by rule, was read aloud by Roberts -- and even Democrats in the chamber appeared visibly puzzled by the interrogatory.

From Fox News • Jan. 30, 2020

She looked at me, then she spoke rapidly to the little girl in Italian, with a rising inflexion, then a pause, interrogatory.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner