Sentence examples for pointed character from inspiring English sources

There is a scene in which Gabriel meets a number of protesters, leading to some rather heavy-handed political discussions and pointed character self-justifications, but beyond this, the two story strands never really coalesce.

Most national polls show a majority of voters have a favorable opinion of Mr. Obama, and they might be repelled by pointed character attacks on a president for whom many Americans feel an affinity, particularly because he is the nation's first black president.

He also said that the chancel arch was "of considerable elegance, unusual in North Wales, having excellent moulding and clustered shafts which have a Middle Pointed character".

Lei fans will recognize Mimi and Gaga, the pointed-teeth characters from Lei's earlier oil paintings, who now appear in the pages of this experimental graphic memoir recounting the collective memories that Beijing cult youth like Lei share from their adolescence in the 1970's.

These stories are all satirical, making fun of Babbittry, small-town hypocrisy and narrow-mindedness, but the humor is mostly as fond as it is pointed, and the characters are never caricatures.

When Benítez was asked why he had chosen this team, apparently out of character, a pointed question that implied presidential prerogative, he noted: "We are all responsible".

During rehearsals for the Off Broadway run of "Other Desert Cities," for instance, Ms. Lavin became a pointed advocate for her character Silda — a recovering alcoholic fresh out of rehab — and recalled pushing her opinions with the director Joe Mantello and the playwright Jon Robin Baitz about aspects of the performance that related to Silda's alcoholism.

That play also makes pointed space for the character of Caliban – an islander forcibly dispossessed by the European magician Prospero.

Leterrier tried to work in the character's pointed ears, but realized the Hulk would bite them off (using the example of Mike Tyson when he fought Evander Holyfield), and felt ignoring that would make the Hulk come across as stupid.

TAMPA, Fla .— Mitt Romney leveled a searing attack against Newt Gingrich's character and raised pointed questions about his ability to lead during a debate here Monday evening, taking urgent steps to slow Mr. Gingrich's rising momentum in the fight for the Republican presidential nomination.

Senator John McCain used the final debate of the presidential election on Wednesday night to raise persistent and pointed questions about Senator Barack Obama's character, judgment and policy prescriptions in a session that was by far the most spirited and combative of their encounters this fall.