Sentence examples for point that thing from inspiring English sources

"This is not an autobiographical novel," an author's note warns at the start of "Don't Point That Thing at Me" (Overlook; $13.95), by the British author Kyril Bonfiglioli.

Margaret Bonfiglioli recalls her husband toward the end of their marriage shyly showing her the first few pages of "Don't Point That Thing at Me".

The plot of "Don't Point That Thing at Me" (first published in 1973) is too complicated to be properly explained, and much too silly.

Here, Overlook Press is starting out with just the first novel, "Don't Point That Thing at Me," perhaps anxious about the possible effects of exposing the American reading public to too much Mortdecai all at once.

Each chapter of "Don't Point That Thing at Me" bears an epigraph from a poem by Browning (or, in subsequent books, by Tennyson, Swinburne, and Wyatt), and a teasing author's note explains that one epigraph is a "palpable forgery".

There is a moving passage toward the end of "Don't Point That Thing at Me," in which happiness is suddenly seen to repose in all the drab, suburban mediocrity that Mortdecai despises.

It was at this point that things got weird.

It's at that point that things get interesting.

It's at this point that things get seriously freaky.

It is at this point that things get interesting.

It was at this point that things began to get fuzzy.