MY friend the fiction writer is sensitive, so I asked the dreaded question directly.

So, when asked the dreaded questions, here are some inoffensive answers for candidates, along with some decidedly unwise ones.

They called last week with that dreaded question: 'My PC isn't working.

And then, the dreaded question; "Can I be in your gang?

Better telephone so that she can be sure that when he asks the dreaded question that they are.

She looked at him, holding back the dreaded question.

The most dreaded question he was asked was "Where are you from, really?

With the taste of champagne still fresh, Michael Jordan was already being asked the dreaded question on Sunday night.

It was left to her to ask the dreaded question: "Doctor, he's going to be all right, isn't he?

It was a different reporter, but he repeated the dreaded question.