Sentence examples for under pointed from inspiring English sources

Even the president's wife is under pointed personal attack.

Under pointed questioning, he could not give a clear explanation of why the failure rate for tires from one plant was so much higher than from others.

A 14-year-old boy charged with shooting his teacher to death stayed calm under pointed cross-examination from a prosecutor today.

But under pointed questioning by a prosecutor, he said that in the previous year, he met with Mr. Marshall 35 times and with Mrs. Astor only 8 times.

Architectural forms continued to be the basis of design in precious metal; the silver shrine of St. Taurin at Évreux (c. 1250), for example, is a Gothic chapel in miniature, with saints under pointed arches, clustered columns, and small turrets.

People with guilty knowledge — of a detail from a crime scene, for example — tend to show signs of stress, as measured by heart and skin sensors, under pointed questioning.

They'd be setting explosives under huge, pointed steel anti-tank defenses called hedgehogs.

All receive mellifluous and devoted readings under the pointed direction of Paul Salamunovich.

As a witness, Dr. Kelly sat hunched over the desk in front of him, looking troubled and uncomfortable under the pointed questioning of members of the parliamentary panel.

The first day, we clatter across the moat of the château at Puivert, under the pointed portcullis, and into the ancient courtyard.

He began close to his home east of the Duomo, where Serafini wandered under a pointed archway into a vine-covered alley amid the neo-Gothic buildings of the Verdi Conservatory.