Clinton did aim some barbs Sanders' way, not least when she paid lengthy tribute to the "grassroots donors … powering our campaign" – a pointed comparison to Sanders' oft-touted reliance on small, individual donations, and his lack of Wall Street support.
He repeatedly called his wife "the real one," making a pointed comparison to the "cartoon alternative" that Republicans have created of her.
Bill Clinton's pointed comparison of Obama to Jesse Jackson after the South Carolina primary was designed to link Obama to an earlier black candidate for the presidency who had a much more limited appeal to white voters.
Wright designed the installation for that exhibition, including sleek furniture and special frames reminiscent of screens.It is unfortunate then that the institute's current show lacks pointed comparisons between Japanese design and actual Wright buildings.
Mr. Assad, in an interview with the pro-government newspaper Al Thawra, said the fall of Egypt's president, Mohamed Morsi, proved that Islamist groups like the Brotherhood were unfit to rule, and drew pointed comparisons to the movement against him in Syria, in which Islamists play a prominent role.
French filmmakers have often made movies about adolescence -- from François Truffaut's 1959 classic, "The 400 Blows," to the 1980 "La Boum" (which introduced Sophie Marceau) to the 2000 movie "Du Poil Sous les Roses" ("Hair Under the Roses"), which drew some less-pointed comparisons to the first "American Pie" for its "raw" treatment of teenage sexuality.
Her pointed question and comparison turned what was supposed to be my reported piece about youth fears of fraud and suppression into an opinion piece about something many of us are feeling increasing urgency about: the serious possibility that the presidential election may be stolen - and what to do before and (if necessary) after the election is stolen.
Between Jack McCallum's stellar retrospective (the aptly titled "Dream Team," released last month), a 90-minute NBA TV documentary and myriad articles raising pointed cross-decades comparisons, memories of the Dream Team's dominance, personality and global influence continue to ring true two decades on.
But it was nothing Mr. Obama had not heard before and was relatively gentle, at least in comparison with her pointed attacks on the stump and on the airwaves in the most recent primaries, in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Indiana, where she taunted her rival about his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., and Mr. Obama's remarks about "bitter" small-town voters.
The Alberta group was taken aback by the pointed Avatar attack, considering the comparison to be a flimsy one.
Point to its pointed teeth.
