Sentence examples for pointed enough to from inspiring English sources

Only at the end of the day, when Mr. Starr was questioned by David E. Kendall, the President's personal lawyer, did the questions become pointed enough to challenge Mr. Starr's unflappable demeanor.

So with humor broad yet pointed enough to seem a little risqué, wrapped up in a telegenic package, Ms. Handler has a profile that some predict is only going to get bigger.

In this perspective, what Jewish Wagnerites like Joseph Horowitz glean to be the composer's ostensibly transcendant musical-dramatic insight into himself and others, the villains as well as the heros, the real Wagner that emerges is not Shakespeare, whose anti-Semitic creation Shylock was pointed enough to be exploited by the Nazis, but the Nazi propoganda creations Ewige Jude and Jud Suss.

It is concise and pointed enough to be a tweet: "We don't want nouveau riches McMansions sprouting up all over our ridges".

Only by delivering a strong, public human rights message -- mixing justified praise with pressure pointed enough to rankle the government -- will oppressed minorities in Burma come away from his visit feeling empowered rather than ignored.

Nonetheless, the suit's questions were pointed enough to merit a trial, at least in the view of Judge Thomas Wheeler in the federal claims court — although not in a U.S. District Court in Manhattan, where a judge dismissed a similar Greenberg suit two years ago.

Their music –- pointed enough in spirit to have earned a spot on "The L Word" -– goes beyond the traditional subjects of the kale and khusn, or bride and groom.

Be pointed enough with this antagonizing exercise to trigger yourself to act, to come out swinging with better ideas and ways to clean up the mountain of emotional clutter you find yourself in.

The snout juts with money-inhaling arrogance, though its three-pointed star — large enough to top the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree — straddles the line of good taste.

They are not our allies.' " Prince Saud al-Faisal, the Princeton-educated foreign minister, was diplomatically circumspect but pointed enough when asked at a recent news conference about the relationship with Washington in the wake of a war that Saudi Arabia publicly opposed, while lending quiet support to the American military and allowing the air war to be run out of Prince Sultan base here.

Her mother grew concerned enough to ask pointed questions.