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
But the pointedness of Bosworth’s latest comments struck a nerve.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2021
Post-inauguration versions have varied in pointedness, becoming increasingly dependent on A-lister cameos of administration officials to make a mark, starting with Melissa McCarthy’s impersonation of Sean Spicer.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2019
Here, too, we find the irreverent pleasure in the telling, the attitude of moral justice, the pointedness of the voice.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 21, 2016
The question was unpleasant in its directness, and, while put with perfect respect, its pointedness seemed cutting.
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Bertram Mitford
