The summit seemed to be a pointed rejoinder to the Bush administration's policy on North Korea.
Last January an influx of year-ahead trend pieces predicted the arrival of "peak beard" – a projection to which HBO's whip-smart semi-sitcom Looking Warnerr, 18), its handsome ensemble decorated scene-for-scene with a dazzling array of facial foliage, immediately landed as a pointed rejoinder.
Some veterans of the Bush White House say Mr. Cheney had little choice but to speak out given the barbs directed his way by Mr. Obama, who — in a pointed rejoinder to the Bush administration's interrogation policies — said, "we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals".
I wish I could say that I'd engaged, let fly with a really pointed rejoinder.
At the press conference outside Brown's office, Callahan, the head of the Massachusetts Building Trade Council, offered a pointed rejoinder to Brown's accusations.
Some Christian leaders in Britain also have sounded the alarm, prompting a pointed rejoinder from the former spiritual leader of the Church of England that also should be required reading for paranoid American religious conservatives.
