Sentence examples for on a pointed from inspiring English sources

And in this film, made in the twilight of the Reagan administration, Mr. O'Quinn's reanimated father figure takes on a pointed ideological significance.

As Mimi unsmilingly goes about running the house that John takes for granted, Julia shares her love of music with John, a love that takes on a pointed, complex erotic charge in a sequence that begins with mother and son listening to Screamin' Jay Hawkins yowling "I Put a Spell on You".

Pa skins it and skewers it on a pointed stick for Laura and Mary to roast in the hearth.

But you could walk along the beach and collect, on a pointed stick, all the dabs and plaice that the fishermen threw out.

The leading margins of the disc are almost straight and converge on a pointed, slightly protruding snout; the trailing margins of the disc are convex.

As president, TR ramped up the Navy, sending the "Great White Fleet" on a pointed world tour, and won the Nobel Peace Prize for settling the war between Russia and Japan.

There are some irresistibly simple, dancey steps (the tapping of a pointed toe on a precise diagonal; the sharp switch of three dancers from facing one diagonal to another).

The seed pods will grow, taking on a long, pointed shape.

Seen against the background of apartheid, however, the imperative of the title takes on a much more pointed urgency and the anxiety of the artist a far greater poignancy.

It was a three-story Victorian eyesore that at one point had had a pointed tower on the front, although this had been removed in 1944.

Back in July, Trump tweeted out an image of Hilary Clinton's face in front of a pile of cash, with the words "Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!" stamped on a red, six-pointed star.