Sentence examples for a pointed discussion from inspiring English sources

MAGGIE HABERMAN _____ At one point, Mrs. Clinton became involved in a pointed discussion with Matt Lauer, the moderator, over her handling of classified emails.

A pointed discussion of Nabokov with Ben's super-smart kids flags up the question of how loving or abusive his parenting may be, leaving our own sympathies divided.

At one point, Barlow recalled, the C.I.A.'s Dick Kerr summoned senior State Department officials to a meeting and initiated a pointed discussion about the steady flow of démarches and highly classified internal American intelligence analyses between Washington and Islamabad.

In recent months, for example, a Yahoo message board on Startec Global Communications in Potomac, Md., has been the site of a pointed discussion by people who claim to be employees or former employees.

The smaller opposition parties, whose candidates were shut out of the debate, claimed that their absence all but ruled out any pointed discussion of the issues.

As a commenter on a past post of mine astutely pointed out, with all this pointed discussion about a simple, natural and safe preservative like sulfur it's funny that we seem to forget that, of all the chemicals in wine to be wary of, the most dangerous by far is that potent poison, alcohol.

In one of the company's older pieces, the dancers, after much pointed discussion of gender, bit into large, warty pickles, with clear meaning).

If the crisis of the car companies mirrors many of the themes of the campaign — jobs, change, America's ability to compete in the world market — it also makes for rich and pointed discussion.

(That includes women as well as African-Americans. In one of the company's older pieces, the dancers, after much pointed discussion of gender, bit into large, warty pickles, with clear meaning).

This cues the play's most pointed discussion, with Richard, played with genial gravity by Mr. Sanders, suggesting that the attacks on Ms. Palin from the left just after she was nominated for the vice presidency imbued her with the political influence she subsequently wielded.

Dedicating entire or extended segments of debates on particular topics, as occurred in 2008, has proven a useful tool for forcing more pointed discussions.