“An enemy posing as a critic will often dress up criticisms as something else. For example, the question ‘How are you getting along in (some city)?’ is, in such a context, easily understood to have nothing to do with its superficial appearance, comprising instead, a combination of insult and observation: ‘We both know you are [some judgment] and I am indicating that in the form of a question whose actual answer is rhetorical because my speech intention wasn’t that of questioning but of insult, domination through subterfuge and cynicism.”

— an a i