Sentence examples for makes pointed from inspiring English sources

That kind of specificity makes pointed sense in a Trollope tome; "Cranford" is 187 pages long.

Benjamin Black makes pointed asides about the dullness of Agatha Christie, and about the patness of mystery stories that resolve their loose ends too tidily.

This fact makes pointed sense of the static, dogmatic forms that we associate with Byzantine culture: they stood against an always potential descent into fragmenting chaos.

The choreography, rooted in tradition, flowers in remarkably imaginative new ways, and while it honors the past, this Australian company also makes pointed comments on contemporary Aboriginal life.

She is enjoyably sardonic, redescribing "development" as "sustainable exploitation", and makes pointed comments about the rhetorical deployment of "Confucianism" or "a monolithic idea of Palestine".

On the other hand, Sam Mendes's touring Anglo-American production of "Richard III," at the Brooklyn Academy of Music through March 4, makes pointed and sardonic use of film in ways familiar to today's television audiences.

At one point, he made pointed remarks about the news media — and The New York Times in particular — for its scant or nonexistent coverage of the shooting death of a 17-year-old boy in the Bronx last week.

So when James started asking pointed questions and making pointed statements, the room took notice.

The events pointed up the difficulty Mr. McCall has had in making pointed, high-volume responses to the governor's attacks.

Putin made pointed criticism of the United States a main theme of his campaign, at one point accusing then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton of inciting street protests against him.

Neighbors have made pointed comments about his "messy" fields.