Sentence examples for pointed assessment from inspiring English sources

That pointed assessment of Mr Bush's environmental and energy policies comes from the League of Conservation Voters, a non-governmental group not known for its wild proclamations.

In a pointed assessment of the impact of the welfare reform bill on children's rights in England, the commissioner, Maggie Atkinson, warns that there are "real risks to the rights of children" – with homelessness spreading as a result of housing becoming unaffordable for their families.

The founder of modern Singapore, Lee Kwan Yew, who passed away recently, had a rather pointed assessment of what's known as the U.S. "Asia pivot" policy: Americans think of international relations like a movie, imagining that we can hit the "Pause" button when we need to and then push "Play" when we want to return.

From his pointed assessments of other artists to his diktats on brush strokes, Fischl is entertaining company.

In a series of Op-Ed articles, three European writers -- A. A. Gill, Am e Nothomb and Christoph Peters -- offer their pointed assessments.

The intense but soft-spoken Lundqvist was visibly upset after a series of bad defeats and let slip some subtly pointed assessments of his teammates.

This is a typically pointed and intelligent assessment, as you might expect from Azinger, although it does lack a definitive prediction of the outcome.

What is most astonishing about the interviews Mr. Moreh has recorded is how candid and critical these six spymasters are, inflecting their stories with pointed, sometimes devastating assessments of the failings of successive governments.

For this reason, I've used, in the middle of this article -- the part with the bullet-pointed lists -- a data assessment that ranks states solely by their Caucasian populations.

Point to its pointed teeth.

To ignore that assessment is to invite the pointed and often distracting comments that continue to pepper mainstream media coverage.