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Example sentences for: begs

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As I said, it should take any normal human being at least two weeks to get through Mason & Dixon --but that begs the question of whether Pynchon's writings are intended for normal human beings.
An NEA survey that asks whether you like to go to the theater, opera, ballet, etc., subtly begs for affirmative answers.
In 1973 Doubleday wisely reissued The Young Visiters , and it got a rave review by Alan Friedman in The New York Times . He called it “a tiny novel that begs comparison with giants: Tolstoy's War and Peace , Flaubert's Sentimental Education , and Lawrence's Women in Love may be bigger, but The Young Visiters too manages to contain and display, more gracefully than the giants, an entire civilization.”
The Mirror called the paper treacherous and hypocritical, while the Sun said: "The Sun begs everyone to refuse to pay out for the book.
This then begs the question of what alternatives there are to this traditional system, now that the Internet has become the researcher's tool of choice for searching and accessing the literature.