pointedness

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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

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

"Or musical criticism," Lute remarked, with no glance at all, but with a pointedness of present company that brought from O'Hay: "Or just being a charming young woman."

From The Little Lady of the Big House by London, Jack