Sentence examples for pointed act from inspiring English sources

But it's equally significant as a pointed act of retelling.

The protest without a permit was a pointed act of defiance, particularly by the two most prominent opposition leaders: Aleksei Navalny, an anticorruption activist, and Sergei Udaltsov of the Left Front, a radical socialist group.

He doesn't have a master.' " But he adamantly refused to engage in any dialogue, she said, and went on to attend an unsanctioned rally on Dec. 15, in a pointed act of defiance.

The writer, in a pointed act of career suicide, delivers "Mantan: The New Millennium Minstrel Show" -- a blackface variety show, a "coon show" right down to the chickens and the watermelons and the bug-eyed plantation patter, starring two street performers (Savion Glover as Mantan and Tommy Davidson as Sleep 'n' Eat).

Taking a pair of vice grips, the nails are bent so the pointed end acts as a hook which can be fed through the inside of the hole drilled in the pipe so the nail hook is suspended by its head and can spin freely.

Wainaina's lost chapter, then, was a pointed and deliberately provocative act.

In so many of our hobbies or sports like cycling, surfing, running, climbing, yoga, bowling, painting and golfing, they are all ultimately based on a single pointed focus through the creative act of doing.

Ramaphosa wanted the police "to act in a more pointed way".

WASHINGTON -- The only Republican at a Senate hearing on the Paycheck Fairness Act Tuesday had a pointed question: What does the bill do for men?

Point to its pointed teeth.

Suffice it to say, The New World is not, as you may have read, a gooey specimen of incontinent pictorialism; nor "a Tony Scott movie on quaaludes"; nor conceived to accord at any point or in any wise with the three-act, plot-pointed Syd Field-type narrative template that taints modern American cinema.