Sentence examples for more pointed than from inspiring English sources

The rectrices of the immature male and female are more pointed than the adult female.

When are you leaving?' - were more pointed than they perhaps intended.

Some of the calls for reviews were more pointed than others.

His words, to Kitaj's distracted mind, quickly proved more pointed than anyone could have imagined.

The ads are slightly more pointed than ones Mr. Franks is running in Philadelphia.

But Mr. Guest's films are more improvisational than Robert Altman's and more pointed than Mel Brooks's.

Still, the concerto has a more pointed message than the composer was willing to admit.

Though it is angrier and more pointed now than it was downtown, its wording clearer and its jokes finer tuned, it is also more accessible.

Working with Domenico Fontana, the architect to Pope Sixtus V, Della Porta gave a higher, more pointed profile than Michelangelo had intended to the dome of St. Peter's; it became the prototype of the Baroque dome.

Over the weekend, after a NATO bombing killed nine children, Afghan President Hamid Karzai demanded that international troops "stop their operations in our land," a more pointed call than previous ones he has made following such deadly NATO mistakes.

Obama, who has been preparing for several days in the relative seclusion of Williamsburg, Va., is looking to reassure an agitated Democratic base that he intends to defend his record and critique Romney's policy proposals in a far more pointed way than he attempted to do in Denver.