Over all the questioners had every right to think that the candidates used their intelligent, pointed queries mainly as hooks to make points they thought were more important than engaging with actual voters sitting in front of them.
At a meeting with diplomats in Jerusalem, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres was peppered with questions about the purpose of the siege, including pointed queries from the American ambassador, Daniel C. Kurtzer.
Roddick will have a few pointed queries for himself in the days to come after his deeply disappointing performance against the unseeded Tipsarevic.
In question after question, the document peppers Energy Department managers with pointed queries about climate science research, clean energy programs and the employees who work for those programs.
This week, 24 of those officers crowded into a courtroom for questioning about their fitness for jury service, answering pointed queries about their willingness to judge General Sinclair as they would a corporal and whether family members had been victims of sexual assault.
Without any of Jets coaches, executives or PR staffers at his side, he faced a pair of pointed queries right out of the gate.
Leaving aside the questionable utility of such a finely-pointed query, it drove home the fact that Facebook's conception of each of its users is an endless series of nested categories.
The idea struck me when they were demonstrating how to drill down in search: "Friends of friends in California who read Harry Potter, like mountain biking, and speak Spanish and English". Leaving aside the questionable utility of such a finely-pointed query, it drove home the fact that Facebook's conception of each of its users is an endless series of nested categories.
More pointed were audience queries about Clinton's support for the Iraq war and the intervention in Libya that attacked the candidate for being overly hawkish.
But the pointed "defend your position" queries -- so central to the H.B.S. method and rigorous analysis of all kinds -- were infrequent.
