Sentence examples for pointedly from inspiring English sources

She delivers certain lines with relish – when she tells her would-be suitor Gabriel Oak: "I hate to be thought men's property" and, when faced with another, William Boldwood, she murmurs pointedly: "It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs".

After the initial fuss, I wouldn't be at all surprised if Jenner herself, too, had many periods when she quite pointedly dresses down.

Atlético Madrid, the champions who beat Sevilla 4-0 the week before and a team that Nuno pointedly noted "has players who cost €15m or €30m sitting on the bench".

He's a former Utah governor and ex-ambassador to China, who pointedly says he believes in science when it comes to things like global warming.

He voted against the Iraq war and for raising taxes and in 2004 even pointedly refused to vote for George W Bush. (Instead, he wrote in George HW Bush).

Like Sturgeon, she pointedly failed to shake his hand before walking off stage.

There were floods and beheadings and genuine horrors, and even as Cameron was almost out of the door of No 10 and home and dry back to Chipping Norton, inconvenient bodies, that he is expected have a genuine-sounding opinion about, wash up pointedly on beaches.

Asked if Pietersen had a Test future with England Cook presented a pointedly dead bat.