Sentence examples for if pointed from inspiring English sources

That afternoon in Ms. Lambert's faded living room the discussion was quite polite, if pointed.

"The story went that somehow this rod and your body generated static electricity" and the antenna would twitch if pointed toward explosives, says a colonel who tested equipment in Baghdad.

Mr. Cain insisted that the Clinton plan would cost jobs, asking, "If I'm forced to do this, what will I tell those people whose jobs I'm forced to eliminate?" Their polite, if pointed, back and forth — Mr. Clinton pushed back with calculations that Mr. Cain declared "incorrect" — made the pizza executive a minor celebrity and sent the White House scrambling to respond.

Mr. Schuppert's faction claims she began e-mailing the club with lists of delinquent gardeners, including the much-beloved cultivator of the club's rose garden, threatening them with expulsion; Ms. Ward says she merely left helpful, if pointed, reminders to weed in the relevant gardens.

If pointed in our direction, such a combination would have produced the strongest geomagnetic storm to have struck Earth in history and could have knocked out satellites and earthbound power grids, researchers say.

She was left with the mildest of clawing, noticeable only if pointed out.

Yeung's "if" points to the dubiousness of Bratton's alarmist rhetoric.

Mr. Lui grinned and sighed, as if pointing out the obvious.

He surveys and anatomizes the wreckage of battle as if pointing out the vomit after a drunken party.

Turn wheels towards the curb if parked pointing downhill or away from the curb if pointing uphill so that the car's front wheel rests against the curb.

We say that the cone is solid if, and pointed if.