Sentence examples for for a pointed from inspiring English sources

With the substitution of a blunt writing stylus for a pointed one, the symbols become less picturelike and more conventionalized.

One hundred years later, the triangles became diamonds, and his soft cap was exchanged for a pointed one.

Mr. Bush, who initiated the call, termed it "a very frank discussion" — Washington code for a pointed airing of differences.

Zumthor's plan called for a pointed wedge of dark shingled wood clinging to a mountainside, like the mysteriously stranded bow of an ancient ship, with clerestory windows, a modest single door atop simple concrete steps and two bells perched on a slender tower.

Running through a list of celebrities and public figures who have recently spoken publicly about their own mental health difficulties – including his own party's Alastair Campbell and the MPs Kevan Jones and Charles Walker – Miliband took a brief pause for a pointed dig at cultural commentators who "abuse the privilege of their celebrity to insult, demean and belittle others".

Although speculative, the model is consistent with the idea that a tropomodulin molecule competes with an actin subunit for a pointed end.

It consists of a pointed arch for carriages in a roughly coursed rag-stone wall flanked by buttress walls on each side.

This figure-ground color reversal was accomplished by superimposing a white symbol for thymine (a rounded arch) against a black symbol for cytosine (a pointed arch) or a white symbol for adenine (an inverted, rounded arch) over a black symbol for guanine (an inverted, pointed arch) as shown in the Ambiscript DNA Bold column of Figure  2.

They became superstars with the multimillion-selling Brothers in Arms (1985), which produced several hit singles including the chart-topping "Money for Nothing," a pointed send-up of rock in the age of music videos.

Lorde collected song of the year honors for "Royals," a pointed study in class consciousness she and songwriting partner Joel Little wrote just to see if they could attract anyone's attention.

Any protrusions could be a possible safety hazard; for example; a pointed screw end sticking out inside the box could hurt any animal inside.