Sentence examples for pointed turn from inspiring English sources

Speaking in front of international headliners, writers' festival guests and ticket holders, Tempest's talk took a surprisingly pointed turn towards Australian politics, inequality and racism: I've been out to Australia a few times now.

The debate over when to release new research has taken a pointed turn with a new attack on researchers who go public before giving their expert colleagues a first look.

NICK BUNKLEY SALVO AT CERIDIAN The fight for control of the Ceridian Corporation, the payroll processing company, took a pointed turn in late July with the activist investor William A. Ackman taking a jab at the company's chairman over his use of the company jet.

Quickly, while the audience is still looking where you pointed, turn over the hand you pointed with.

Despite good moments, telling stories or pointed turns of phrase, the stop-start format takes the story away from the dancers.

All types of skis downhill (including slalom), jumping, cross-country (both for racing and touring), and freestyle are pointed, turned up, and usually slightly wider at the tip (front) and shovel and squared at the tail (rear).

Mr. Walsh's answer to that charge was pointed: "We turn down 50 cases a week".

In 182 pages of dry yet pointed language, Justice DeGrasse turned the anecdotal evidence familiar to many New Yorkers into a stark statistical and legal indictment.

In one pointed scene, Judy turns on the audience, reversing the "gaze" and challenging the proprietary fantasies of the male spectators.

Alas, Richard A. Posner, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, observes with pointed restraint, "That turned out not to be true".

Educated, self-conscious, gifted with a pointed wit, by turns analytic, solemn and satirical, occasionally apocalyptic, he displays a passionate, mercurial intricacy of thought few composers manage to reconcile with the lyric properties of song.