How to Use Socratic in a Sentence

Socratic

adjective

• My answer would be Socratic: When has that ever stopped language?
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2012
• All signs pointed to his being a Stanford lifer, clicking through slide decks until his hair and beard took on a Socratic quality.
  — Anthony Lydgate, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022
• When the Socratic method is used in place of lecturing, students are forced to trade their passive role in the classroom for an active one in which participation is the primary measure of mastery.
  — Jeremy Tate, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2023
• Ask clarifying Socratic questions to activate a new train of thought.
  — Nuala Walsh, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
• The result is a series of virtually Socratic dialogues (set amid a quietly rich framework of dramatic action) on the subject of life and love.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2020
• Where the 2017 posts were filled with Socratic questions, the later posts were more declarative and expository, with heavy use of exclamation points and words written in all capital letters.
  — New York Times, 19 Feb. 2022
• As the women have no memory of the attacks themselves, their conversation is abstract and theoretical, a Socratic dialogue that unfolds amid farm equipment.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2022
• Cecsarini's Paul is introverted and professorial, openly Socratic in his argument with Joshua.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Nov. 2020
• My answer would be Socratic: When has that ever stopped language?
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2012
• All signs pointed to his being a Stanford lifer, clicking through slide decks until his hair and beard took on a Socratic quality.
  — Anthony Lydgate, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022
• When the Socratic method is used in place of lecturing, students are forced to trade their passive role in the classroom for an active one in which participation is the primary measure of mastery.
  — Jeremy Tate, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2023
• Ask clarifying Socratic questions to activate a new train of thought.
  — Nuala Walsh, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
• The result is a series of virtually Socratic dialogues (set amid a quietly rich framework of dramatic action) on the subject of life and love.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2020
• Where the 2017 posts were filled with Socratic questions, the later posts were more declarative and expository, with heavy use of exclamation points and words written in all capital letters.
  — New York Times, 19 Feb. 2022
• As the women have no memory of the attacks themselves, their conversation is abstract and theoretical, a Socratic dialogue that unfolds amid farm equipment.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2022
• Cecsarini's Paul is introverted and professorial, openly Socratic in his argument with Joshua.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024