Mr. Peled gamely did both, and when Hindemith left the cello line free and clear, in the two sweetly melodic Andante con moto sections, he seized the moment, playing with a seductive timbre and an emotionally pointed approach to phrasing that made you want to hear him again in a more conventional work.
We're going to bring this country together!" Texas Senator Ted Cruz, speaking to reporters as he arrived in Illinois Friday night, took a more pointed approach.
If you are strong in a particular academic subject or set of subjects (i.e. math and physics) and have shown demonstrated ability outside of the classroom in Olympiads, competitions, or research, I would recommend the pointed approach.
Ten common mistakes can get in the way, but a pointed and systematic approach can virtually guarantee success.
The next day, a much smaller group, made up of about a thousand people who sought a more pointed, confrontational approach, gathered at Bowling Green, in Lower Manhattan, to protest Wall Street's investments and campaign contributions in support of the fossil-fuels industry.
When do the intense feelings of devotion, the one-pointed approach to someone or something, fueled by what Freud describes as an "oceanic feeling", beyond the pale and the mundane, the aching desire for meaning, fulfillment, happiness, and seeming sense, curdle into the kind of fanaticism which then fuels any and all means of violent expression?
A more pointed direct approach is to say something like: "I'm sorry, is this a bad time?
A pointed little thriller with metaphysical pretensions, "First Snow" is shrewd enough to approach basic philosophical questions in sneaky, offhand ways.
But all that was forgotten at the winter meetings in December when Zduriencik approached Brian Cashman, the Yankees' general manager, with a pointed question.
