Sentence examples for pointedly observed from inspiring English sources
The phrase "pointedly observed" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when you want to indicate that someone made a remark or observation in a direct and clear manner, often with emphasis on the importance or significance of the observation. Example: "During the meeting, she pointedly observed that the project deadlines were unrealistic."
Don Quixote wants to live the books he has read, Michel Foucault pointedly observed.
Twice last week, Mr. Obama pointedly observed that Mr. Romney seemed to be lambasting a federal plan that was derivative of his own Massachusetts model.
As ESPN's Bonnie D Ford pointedly observed, it is reassuring to know etiquette was being upheld even as Diack's cabal ransacked the sport and undermined the efforts of clean athletes.
Hours before he flew to Moscow on Friday, President Clinton pointedly observed in a speech in Berlin that Westerners "do not yet know if Russia's hard-won democratic freedoms will endure".
Whether or not such intrigues existed — John Rice's biography of the supposedly dastardly Salieri portrays him as a likable character, and an imaginative composer — Mozart himself was not above politicking: when he applied for the job of second Kapellmeister, he pointedly observed that "the very capable Kapellmeister Salieri has never devoted himself to church music".
I understand that," Sessions pointedly observed.
Gerald, Bennett pointedly observes, is consorting with a prostitute somewhere in the mêlée below.
They remain vexed that, as Richard Dawkins pointedly observes, "Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist".
In a 1915 letter, she pointedly observes that the "cow-puncher's experience of the West was not the only experience possible there".
Introducing the third episode, "A Death of One's Own," which deals with assisted suicide, Mr. Moyers notes that the subject is often sensationalized by the media and pointedly observes that in this program "Dr. Kevorkian is not heard from".
The palefaces' enemy this time is a fantastical tribe of mutant cannibals ("Men like you wouldn't distinguish them from Indians," one Native American character pointedly observes) who kidnap some local townsfolk, setting sheriff Kurt Russell and his motley crew off in hard-squinting pursuit.
