Sentence examples for pointed but it from inspiring English sources

His use of a phrase made notorious during Vietnam (and revived, often without irony, in more recent wars) may sound a bit anachronistic and overly pointed, but it also reinforces a disconcerting parallel.

Gingrich's letter wasn't so pointed, but it was supportive: he endorsed state-run reforms, including "treatment over prison time for drug offenders," and he argued that "it is time to fundamentally rethink how we treat and rehabilitate our prisoners".

The directors, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, make the message clear and politically pointed, but it's also highly entertaining.

Six clubs seems doomed to lose a trick in each of the pointed suits, but it was not easy for West to find a safe lead.

He had wanted the chicken to be a prickly, pointed sensation, but it came out "all round".

Make the nose appear to be a little pointed but don't make it sharp.

"It seemed to me," she says, "that for what he was doing, he was doing it very well". This sounds pointed, but perhaps that's just wishful thinking.

Combining performance, installation and sculpture, it is formally exacting but improvisational, politically pointed but comedic.

Under the direction of John Crowley, this new production takes a pointed but dramatically risky tack, beginning at a feverish height of tension and determinedly taking it tighter.

"It started out as ribbing, sort of a pointed ribbing about his hair, but it very quickly became an assault, and he was taken down to the ground, pinned," Mr. Maxwell said.

The book explores the Trump era in a literal sense ― it's set amid the post-2016 electumultumult ― but the most pointed commentary it offers on today's political mess goes beyond Trump: that we are a nation bewitched by the stories we tell about ourselves.