Sentence examples similar to a pointed interrogation from inspiring English sources

RS: Let me ask you a pointed question here.

Then she yielded for a pointed question from McCain.

Some veterans of the Bush White House say Mr. Cheney had little choice but to speak out given the barbs directed his way by Mr. Obama, who — in a pointed rejoinder to the Bush administration's interrogation policies — said, "we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals".

A pointed scene in "L.I.E".

Maybe a pointed joke would help?

The remark was a pointed one.

W.T.: It's like a pointed bay.

So we have a pointed ending there.

The joke was a pointed one.

Is that a pointed decision by Apple?

Then came a pointed follow-up.