Sentence examples for too pointed from inspiring English sources

Her transformation felt too pointed and deliberate; it cast her previous experiments with hip-hop and R. & B. as mercenary and appropriative.

There would have been something faintly ludicrous, something hyperbolic about the way perspective marched in recessional across painted flats toward the far horizon, where peaks rose too pointed, too lofty, too softened by distance.

When the political humor on "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" became too pointed, CBS canceled it, despite strong ratings, and replaced it with "The Leslie Uggams Show," a lightweight variety program.

And when a red balloon enters this boy's life, courtesy of the young Asian film student (Song Fang) who has been hired as his nanny, the contrast between his imaginative world and the world he actually inhabits feels, with all this extra detail, too pointed; Mr. Hou manages to keep poignancy at bay, but it's touch and go.

His rhythm, for example, was a little too pointed for, say, Brahms or Schumann".

There was a Department of Jokes a Department of Jokes!—which would censor your routine once a year, and if something seemed a little too pointed, you'd be summoned to explain your joke.

Parents, across class, asked too many pointed questions and were least impressed by shiny dossiers, video montages of happy students, and shiny computer labs.

The ears need to be a little pointed too and not too sharp.

"My nose is too big and pointed.

"A boss at the BBC once told me that I was too glamorous and pointed to my high-heeled boots.

Distressing, too, are its pointed ears, which are sticking straight up down, actually and are shaped just like a Chihuahua's ears, only in miniature: tiny, perfect doggie ears, which also do not belong on a flying thing.