rhetorical question

It is no long step from this to the rhetorical question and its formal answer "ay but——."

It is a rhetorical question purely, but she does not want to play.

Hush, Charles; it's a rhetorical question; he wants to answer it himself.

Yet a rhetorical question deserves to be raised: Does anyone know everything about sex?

He emitted a tremulous sigh before answering his own rhetorical question.

For a moment he was pulled up, when to his rhetorical question, "What has Home Rule meant to us?"

Carlisle perceived a rhetorical question, though she didn't know it under that name; she made no reply.