Sentence examples for pointed note from inspiring English sources

"Last night the state of Oklahoma executed Clayton Lockett," she said at the opening of a press conference in Oklahoma City, striking a pointed note against widespread media coverage that portrayed the execution as botched.

In 1958, Alfred Knopf sent this pointed note to T. Harry Williams, a professor of Southern history, who also had published a successful book with the company a few years before: "Dear Harry — I am terribly sorry because I would love to have a really good manuscript from you, but 'Americans at War' isn't it".

Apple has been weaning itself off of Google for years now and with this release – and this pointed note regarding Bing – shows how deep the disaggregation has gone.

In April 2014, your former aide, Howard Glazer, sent a pointed note to MTA Chairman Tom Prendergast on your behalf objecting to a similar ad.

There are pointed notes of invention, like the poached egg and black truffle, which comes as a bubbling foam in a miniature Le Creuset saucepan, and Belon oysters, studded with black pepper and green apple.

She zipped from school to school to cocktail party, all in four-inch patent-leather heels and juggling a latte, cellphone and the BlackBerry on which she routinely shoots pointed notes to city officials.

OK, picking two Gould pieces might seem like overkill, but listen to his Bach the precision of his pointed notes, a technique he got from an early piano teacher; the persnickety, precise, but wildly emotional playing, while he rocked and moaned on his personal piano bench.

In New Hampshire, and then in South Carolina, and then across the Midwest, the more obvious and better-funded contenders for the conventional Republican vote reached for a wide coalition by making broad attacks on Cruz and Trump and striking pointed notes of conservatism — only to see their base of support eroded by defections to Kasich.

"She had some very particular notes on a number of scenes — logic questions, pointed notes about several of the relationships," he said.

He fired off a pointed statement noting that he had not participated, or even been asked for "input," in the negotiations.

Immediately a pointed four-note thematic statement is announced by the horns, though only rough variants on this motif seem to reappear as guideposts to the work, a 25-minute, shimmering, fitful score that builds in waves of sound.