Sentence examples for a pointed sense from inspiring English sources

He is wiry, with wavy graying hair and a pointed sense of humor — an improbable addition to the ranks of Wal-Mart's senior managers.

And Mr. Glass, who has a dry but pointed sense of humor, was in good form.

That kind of specificity makes pointed sense in a Trollope tome; "Cranford" is 187 pages long.

This fact makes pointed sense of the static, dogmatic forms that we associate with Byzantine culture: they stood against an always potential descent into fragmenting chaos.

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

The distinctions between two couples in the play — Alioune's wife, Amina (Pascale Armand), is the fourth character — could be read as a pointed commentary on the aimlessness and sense of entitlement endemic to some American youth, members of a new lost generation who are finding it hard to move forward in their lives and careers amid a moribund economy.

The above defined lower relation is equivalent to (Bsubset A+C) and it is the generalization of the order induced by a pointed convex cone C in Y, in the following sense: (aleqslant b) if (bin a+C).

In this article, they introduced the concepts of C-quasi-concave maps and properly C-quasi-concave maps in abstract convex spaces in the sense of Park, where C is a pointed closed convex cone with nonempty interior.

I now keep in my car what for me is a weapon: a huge pink umbrella, bearing a pointed tip, that can be whipped out the next time I sense danger.

Was this just to give you a fuller sense of the place, or was it meant to be a pointed social critique?

Maybe a pointed joke would help?