Sentence examples for pointed introduction from inspiring English sources

On campus and in editorials across the nation, on political blogs and throughout academia, there was a sharp division of opinion about Mr. Bollinger's pointed introduction of the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as a man who exhibited "all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator" and whose denial of the Holocaust was "either brazenly provocative or astonishingly uneducated".

A change in the brief introduction is more pointed.

Point to its pointed teeth.

The fragmented introduction, which most conductors address with a pointed Germanic straightforwardness, was given a thoroughly Italianate lilt here.

Mr. Spielberg and the screenwriter,Tony Kushner, apparently hope this introduction, showing black soldiers in action and speaking some pointed dialogue, will frame the Congressional debates ahead.

When Rexroth was asked if he considered himself a Beat poet, Sam Hamill notes in the introduction to "The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth," his response was pointed".An entomologist," he declared, "is not a bug".

If the exuberant version of Playin' In the Yard - in which the entire band went for broke - was great, the romp through I Want To Be Happy (a pointed post-traffic jam choice, maybe?) was spectacular, containing everything from a wonderful unaccompanied introduction by Stan at his spikiest to a top-drawer solo by the hard-swinging and idiosyncratic Weller.

Benigni pointed.

Harry pointed.

Caius pointed.

"We ask very pointed questions".