Sentence examples for it is pointedly from inspiring English sources

As Israel celebrates the 60th anniversary of its independence, it is pointedly ignoring two truths: First, that there is another people, composed of the previous inhabitants of the country, who consider that anniversary to be a day of national disaster, and consider the nation of Jewish immigrants to have been built on the rubble of another nation, Palestine.

Yet, it is pointedly not capitalism.

And it is pointedly un-Californian at a time when California's oaky style is stirring displeasure.

It is pointedly contrasted by dire warnings on news broadcasts, and by neighbors frantically digging bomb shelters in response to these warnings.

In this case, it is pointedly with Sir Colin, who long ago established himself as a master of the elusive idiom of Berlioz.

The restaurant is up-to-the-minute in a very French way, which is to say that it is pointedly international, while hanging on for dear life to the essential qualities that define a brasserie.

It's pointedly, furiously of its time, including a montage sequence set to Stew's song "Klown Wit Da Nuclear Code" (whose music video Lee directed).

When the announcement came Thursday, it was pointedly public.

It was pointedly silent about whether the other two could do so.

To bartenders, this behavior is not only impolite, it's pointedly dehumanizing.

With control panels, surveillance monitors and a red emergency phone constructed from paper and paste, it's pointedly outdated cold-war child's play.