Sentence examples for pointed alternative from inspiring English sources

The Public Eye, now in its eighth year, is the anti-Davos: a pointed alternative to the annual World Economic Forum that highlights the social and economic consequences of the behaviour of large corporations.

For their part, the owners of the hotel seem sincere about the project, touting it as an experiment in minimalist reuse of space that would otherwise be left empty, also serving as a pointed alternative to increasingly opulent hotel culture.

Moving its headquarters downtown represents a pointed alternative to the multibillion-dollar suburban office parks that Google and Apple are building in Silicon Valley, notwithstanding that so many of their own employees want to live in, and commute from, San Francisco.

If the guiding hand of our unseen hosts hadn't pointed us towards an earnestly alternative creperie called Aromat (Margaret Straße 52, +43 1 913 2453), we wouldn't have walked past Zweitbester (Heumühlgasse 2, + 43 1 945 9386), and jettisoned our intended galettes for the risotto, goat's cheese salad and riesling that proved the best meal of our trip.

He repeatedly called his wife "the real one," making a pointed comparison to the "cartoon alternative" that Republicans have created of her.

Point to its pointed teeth.

Egypt hired as consultants a group of former officials of the safety board and the Federal Aviation Administration, who raised pointed questions and pushed the board into extensive analyses of alternative sequences of events, all of which the board rejected in its report today.

With the two parties scheduled to meet Thursday for a televised session on the health care overhaul, Mr. Obama appeared intent on forcing the Republicans into a choice: either put a specific alternative on the table, giving Democrats a chance to draw pointed contrasts between the parties' approaches, or be cast as obstructionist and not serious about addressing an issue of great concern to voters.

Through a number of dramatic body modifications, Grace has evolved from self-confessed alternative weirdo to actual pixie dream-girl with purple eyes, pointed elf ears, a forked-tongue, scarification and no belly button.

The city and the university were reminded of his distinguished career last fall after an article in a local alternative weekly publication, Metro Pulse, introduced Walker to a new audience and asked a pointed question: Had his sexual orientation denied him Hall of Fame recognition?

Benigni pointed.