Sentence examples for pointed assertion from inspiring English sources

Note the pointed assertion of independence — and the seemingly casual aside that it was an "extended" stay.

** Note the pointed assertion of independence — and the seemingly casual aside that it was an "extended" stay.

She is avoiding major cities in the Northeast and on the West Coast, a pointed assertion of her contempt for metropolitan élites.

Point to its pointed teeth.

That assertion might have felt more pointed because of what had preceded it: a surprise appearance by Lil Wayne, the New Orleans upstart who has billed himself as the "best rapper alive".

The Yankees are eight years removed from their last world championship, but it's hard not to regard the new stadium, with its over-the-top evocation of Yankee mythology, as an in-your-face assertion of Yankee might, a pointed and — depending on your perspective — either desperate or reassuring reminder that the team is less a baseball club than an American institution.

Benigni pointed.

Harry pointed.

Caius pointed.

"We ask very pointed questions".

HE POINTED to the sky.