The phrase "after a pointed" is not complete and lacks context, making it difficult to determine its correctness in written English.
It could be used in contexts where something follows a pointed remark or action, but without additional information, its usage is unclear.
Example: "After a pointed comment about his work ethic, he decided to improve his performance."
Alternatives: "following a sharp" or "after a direct".
After a pointed exchange about earnings with Qwest on Business Week's letters page, she said, the same thing happened again.
And when, after a pointed conversation, she slinks out of the bunkhouse, temporary home to many of the other characters, the two leads comment on her.
Still, the bill approved by Uruguay's Senate came after a pointed debate among legislators, producing a compromise that disappointed both abortion rights groups and opponents, who have vowed to carry out a referendum to overturn the legislation.
After a pointed team meeting today, the Devils were questioning themselves and wondering why they lacked that same wild-eyed sense of purpose that had driven the Avalanche right past them.
A former State Department arms expert who leaked classified information to a Fox News reporter was sentenced Wednesday to 13 months in prison after a pointed courtroom debate about the Obama administration's aggressive pursuit of unauthorized disclosures of top-secret information.
Hagel, who should be confirmed after a pointed and at times dramatic and entertaining battle, will be the first former enlisted man to serve as defense secretary.
(Perry came out swinging soon after, making a pointed "Mean Girls" reference on Twitter).
An elderly Spanish anarchist from Madrid named Unamuno after the iconoclastic Basque philosopher who barely escaped being shot after delivering a pointed j'accuse to Franco's generals at a fascist Columbus Day celebration in 1936, at the height of the Spanish Civil War.
McAuliffe's spokesman first referred to Everytown as a "group from New York" on Friday after it unfurled a pointed social media campaign against the governor.
He had done so, plenty, after she asked him a pointed question in an earlier debate about his attitudes toward women.
Turnbull summoned the gas chiefs to this week's crisis meeting after the Australian Energy Market Operator issued a pointed warning last week that New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia were likely to face gas shortages as of the summer of 2018-19.
