Sentence examples for pointed stare from inspiring English sources

"Very black" is somewhat less gentle, especially when accompanied by a pointed stare.

What they haven't defined me as yet" – he fixes me with a pointed stare – "is a comedian".

Occasionally inmates say something disobliging about the regime, before adding (with a long, pointed stare towards the prison guard): "But the staff have been brilliant.

MASS TRANSIT (2 Stars) To indicate interest while using Mass Transit, try either the Hey, I Saw You Had Headphones on, But It Is Important That I Speak to You, or the Weird Pointed Stare Until the Other Person Gets Off Two Stops Early option.

Children at the school where she works commented on Shane's appearance, she said, and pointed and stared at the black patch she wore over her eye.

Through his translator, he asked me a question much less pointed than his stare.

To ignore the fixed stares, the pointed whispers, the blatant curiosity.

Mrs. Clinton was all icy stares and pointed rebukes, while avoiding the sort of prickly reactions that hurt Mr. Obama in his first debate against Mitt Romney in 2012 and were devastating to Al Gore in his initial debate against George W. Bush in 2000.

What's more, the dialogue is sanded and sharpened to an epigrammatic elegance, and the actors' stiffly pointed diction and sharply focussed stares are matched by the carefully calibrated settings and costumes, the very styling of the characters (the swoop of Woodcock's hair, the tightness of Cyril's coiffure).

Gone is the pointed pencil-toss of Stewart, and that deadly stare he employed to deliver lethal blows to a target.

The sun on the pointed waves is hard as chipped flint but I stare anyway, waiting for a revelation....The blue cliffs of La Gomera seem close enough to Tenerife to reach by means of a strong backstroke.