Sentence examples for pointedly directed from inspiring English sources

"This service is closed to the media – with no exceptions", a note put out by the family pointedly directed.

Johnson was convicted under the Mann Act, legislation purportedly designed to protect vulnerable young women, but pointedly directed at Johnson.

Johnson was convicted under the Mann Act, legislation supposedly designed to protect young women, but in this case pointedly directed at him.

However my optimism that in the future we will see more empirical work pointedly directed at theoretical issues is based on the fact that work of this sort has already begun to thrive.

In my experience, American parents have somehow been brainwashed into thinking that we need to socialize our young children, and this message is pointedly directed at parents of single children.

Toward that end, it has created an all-new Seville that is more pointedly directed at the current standard bearers, the refined, world-class cars of BMW, Lexus and Mercedes.

Keep that buzz buzzing," he says, pointedly directing his comments into my recorder (we are speaking before the ceremony).

His remarks were directed pointedly to the people of the Korean peninsula, which is now divided into North and South Korea.

In Wainwright's case you can't help feeling that the warning is directed somewhat pointedly towards his own mother and father.

That concern has been directed most pointedly at Gates, because his foundation has spent the most by far on education philanthropy, and because he was pivotal in advancing some of the controversial priorities of the Obama administration's Education Department.

He dodged whether Putin personally directed the operations but pointedly noted "not much happens in Russia without Vladimir Putin".