pointedness

Example Sentences

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There’s a specific pointedness to the fact that Linda, who bares her soul to a colleague played by Conan O’Brien, is charged with managing other peoples’ issues as a mental health professional.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2025

Post-inauguration cold opens have varied in pointedness, becoming increasingly dependent on A-lister cameos of administration officials starting with Melissa McCarthy’s impersonation of Sean Spicer.

From Salon • Oct. 7, 2019

But Wojnarowicz’s art did not develop power and pointedness until 1987, when his close friend, the portrait photographer Peter Hujar, died, of AIDS, in St. Vincent’s Hospital, in Greenwich Village.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 18, 2018

Few cars have the pointedness, the intentionality of a 911 at speed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2016

She greeted me with more graciousness than I had expected, enquiring after my health with pointedness and an amount of tender solicitude that, until the explanation broke upon me, somewhat puzzled me.

From Paul Kelver, a Novel by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)