Sentence examples for so pointed from inspiring English sources

"It's very rare that it would be so pointed to us," the American official said of the threat.

His toes were so pointed in that he once confessed: "I have spiked myself 10 or 11 times.

Her questions were so pointed that Enron's chief executive, Jeffrey K. Skilling, called her unethical for failing to do more research.

Gingrich's letter wasn't so pointed, but it was supportive: he endorsed state-run reforms, including "treatment over prison time for drug offenders," and he argued that "it is time to fundamentally rethink how we treat and rehabilitate our prisoners".

Focusing on a counterterrorism unit, the series began filming in November 2001, and is so swift in its action, so pointed about post-9/11 threats, that it is easily the best suspense show around.

The perceived conflict between good science and prestige has become so pointed that, two years ago, Randy Schekman, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist, announced in the Guardian that he would no longer publish in Nature, Cell, or Science, which, he wrote, "aggressively curate their brands, in ways more conducive to selling subscriptions than to stimulating the most important research".

" 'Here, I lend thee this sharp-pointed' " — or not-so-pointed — " 'sword.' " The mobile unit was established by Joseph Papp, the founder of the Public Theater, but was out of service for nearly 40 years until it was revived last summer, Mr. Eustis said.

Flip the paper so the pointed top of the plane is facing the left.

Taking a pair of vice grips, the nails are bent so the pointed end acts as a hook which can be fed through the inside of the hole drilled in the pipe so the nail hook is suspended by its head and can spin freely.

The hip hop artist had the world in stitches with his oh-so-very-pointed "butt stuff" tweet storm at the beginning of the year.

Using the rotate tool, make rotate so that the pointed part of the heart points towards the head.