Sentence examples for but rather pointed from inspiring English sources

Shorten said the sector had been rocked by a string of scandals that were "not isolated and one-off examples" but rather pointed to systemic problems in the industries.

On Friday, Richard A. Brown, the Queens district attorney, said an investigation revealed that delayed medical treatment had not led to the child's death, but rather pointed to irreversible injuries caused by Ana Delarosa, his baby sitter.

Similarly, transcriptional comparisons of the salt tolerant T. halleri and the susceptible A. thaliana did not show activation of general stress responses but rather pointed to a precise defence strategy [ 10, 38, 39].

In this case, though, it was rather pointed.

The tapered end might be rather pointed or have a small straight edge.

The novelist Francis King once wrote a rather pointed short story entitled "Hard Feelings".

They have a long, many-spined dorsal fin and usually a rather pointed nose.

Still, I read a rather pointed criticism of my spending habits in his anticatalog crusade.

"Mother," Lysander will at some stage be required to declare, "I have to ask you a few rather pointed questions".

Did the oldest Sand Snake, Obara, she of the rather pointed (sorry) way with weaponry seem oddly familiar?

In rather pointed and colorful terms, Ms. Annabi offered an opinion of how Mr. Jereis might be treated by fellow inmates.