With three goals in mind — to score a political point, to convey a safe-sex message and to make money — a South African producer has made that nation's first all-black pornographic movie.
And in the age of electronic communication, when that voice is transmitted so often via e-mail and text message, many literate and articulate people find themselves justifying the exclamation point to convey emotion, enthusiasm or excitement.
In "The Dictator," which pokes fun at the excesses of a Qaddafi-like villain, he also has some geopolitical points to make about back-room arms and oil deals, and in a climactic speech, a deadly sharp point to convey about the sorry state of American democracy.
Maryanne Bruce, 49, a mutual fund investor in Charlotte, N.C., the flight's destination, has taken that pledge a step further, and has made it a point to convey it every chance she gets, believing most people say nice things about others only after they die.
These safety benefits may provide an additional point to convey to homebuyers, builders, and real estate agents.
Eventually, he found that the two parts of his identity could exist in harmony — and he makes a point to convey this to his students with the hope that it will help them overcome any tendencies toward suicide or drugs, which have taken many young lives in Alaska Native villages.
But the point was to convey to them that nature was not black and white.
The whole point was to convey to visitors that the hosts could afford to set aside separate fireplaces for parties and polite conversation.
The job of a war reporter, he says at one point, is "to convey the private hell of others, as though you understand it, or as though it has anything to do with you".
