Sentence examples for pointed stories from inspiring English sources
He felt free to alter the materials that he drew from the chronicle histories, in order to produce more compelling and pointed stories, but he worked with identifiable sources, which, if required by the authorities, he could cite in his defense.
That set-up isn't necessarily a bad premise for a story, but "Star-Crossed's" race metaphors are obvious and not particularly compelling, and the show doesn't appear to be very interested in telling pointed stories about oppression, marginalization and subjugation.
From subtle newsroom emphasis and selective coverage patterns at the Wall Street Journal to pointed stories at the New York Times (not to mention the recent shuttering of its environmental blog), media bias is real and systemic.
Like his famous father, Eric Mingus is an outspoken bass player: on his album "Um... Er... Uh," Mr. Mingus delivered pointed stories and half-sung rants on top of jazz grooves.
It's a pointed story of fraternal friction in behind-the-music disguise.
As early as 1837 he had written Passion et vertu, a short and pointed story with a heroine, Mazza, resembling Emma Bovary.
Susan Linnee, a Minnesotan who established a lifelong friendship with Annan in those years, and who is now the Associated Press bureau chief in Nairobi, remembers hearing a much more pointed story from that trip: "They went somewhere and Kofi needed a haircut.
The idea of mutual respect kept recurring: in her advocacy of diplomacy, in the letters from men who had served under her father in the Navy which she said she held dear, in the pointed story she told about the Navy SEALs who, having assassinated Osama bin Laden, escorted the terrorist's children and wives to safety.
"In our conscienceless childhood days we ripped the backs from the kitchen chairs and made sledges from them; we drove nails into the wooden kerb — the King's Kerb!" Of course, it's really the father who is owed the debt, and in closing this very short, very pointed story, Frame imagines his own list: "Back, shrapnel in; lungs, remains of gas in; nights, nightmares in; days, memories in".
We'd brainstorm, pitch, write, and hone, a funny, pointed story about it.
But if you have been following the Bear Stearns story at all, there's a good chance you will enjoy "The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns," Greenberg's short, entertaining and pointed tale.
