Sentence examples for refrain from pointing from inspiring English sources

He also complained about owning two houses, though did refrain from pointing out that his diamond shoes pinch.

Karl Smith, if I understand him, thinks that I should refrain from pointing out how foolish and destructive foolishly destructive ideas have been, and offer the proponents of these ideas a face-saving exit.

Her idea that cricket is "as important to Britain's view of itself as baseball is to America's" is inflated, even if you refrain from pointing out that in Scotland, where I come from, it is not popular at all.

In deference to the current emergency, we will refrain from pointing out that when our national leaders came together following Sept. 11, the results were, all and all, worse than if they had stayed home.

If you disagree with financial choices your partner has made, refrain from pointing a finger (e.g., "Why in the world would you do something like that?").

While scientists typically refrain from pointing the finger and saying climate change caused any single event, it can amplify and align factors that result in more frequent, more extreme weather events.

(Perhaps out of respect for her subject, Bentley refrains from pointing out that the ur-Salome is said to have married her father).

As Mr. Conniff puts it: "One reason management consultants have generally refrained from pointing out the remarkable and instructive similarities in hierarchical behavior between humans and other primates is to spare the feelings of the executives who hired them".

I told her about the Forum; when she heard that we'd spent a lot of time asking one another "What's possible now?," she enthused that she was going to start asking this at the dinner table at her retirement home; I refrained from pointing out that asking the elderly "What's possible now?" might yield a frank discussion of motor skills.

Though U.S. officials seem to have largely refrained from pointing fingers at their Libyan counterparts, one consistent feature of the drip-drip of information about the Benghazi attack seems to be that U.S. agencies felt they were not getting the security they expected and perhaps needed from the host country.

I refrained from pointing out that the coffee she drank was promoted in conjunction with a life style that it was not, without additional funds, naturally yoked to, any more than polar bears are yoked to a certain red-canned cola drink.