Sentence examples for question pointedly from inspiring English sources

"If the question pointedly was, 'Are you going to run,' you know, I would love to," said Mr. Wilson of the Republican Presidential nomination in 2000.

Most of the criticism came from Labour MPs, and Nick Boles, the business minister replying to the urgent question, pointedly chose not to condemn the firm (saying it was not his job to comment on individual cases).

Only when the cancer recurred and radiation treatment was given did she question pointedly what had happened and write to Crile: "I now feel the whole procedure has been rather slapdash...

I recall a journalist at the time, Lisa Robinson, rushing backstage, looking at the darlings of this demimonde of rock and roll and asking the question, pointedly, to Johnny Thunders, "Are you a communist?" His answer was simple and poignant.

Appearing at the Jazz Standard on Thursday night, Fly raised those questions pointedly but calmly, levelheadedly.

The question so pointedly raised by Hadley's title remains resolutely unanswered.

The central question – asked pointedly this week by the Legacy Trust UK, but posed for months by sports groups, arts projects and charities – is how to recapture the so-called "spirit of 2012" in volunteering.

And while the Court in Elonis certainly could have overruled those panel decisions if it had reached the First Amendment question, it pointedly declined to consider the First Amendment issue.

Peggy Noonan, as faithful a George W. Bush partisan as there is, sharpened the question most pointedly on the Wall Street Journal editorial page on Wednesday, when she implored the president to give us facts instead of sermons in making his case.

To answer your question more pointedly, I would not divide prospective consumers of this work by category, but rather by their eye for image and the capacity of their spine to tingle.

Other commentators, who have been constrained while Soviet soldiers were still fighting on Afghan territory, can now be expected to question more pointedly how the Soviet Union got into Afghanistan, what it did there, why it stayed so long and what lessons it has learned.