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

Picasso identified with the owl’s interrogatory gaze, and he later created a self-portrait of himself as an owl — with his own piercing eyes staring out from a line drawing of the bird.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2023

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

Nodding, Dr. Trefusis asked me to fetch my Locke; which I did, receiving a baleful interrogatory look from Clippinger.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson