pointedness

Example Sentences

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The simplicity and riveting emotional pointedness demonstrated how those Deep South songs could work across genres—and continents.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025

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

Schumer has always been fearless about calling out double standards, including her own, but this season of her show has a political pointedness that both reflects the moment and drives it.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2015

Its most original elements are the startling, hawk-like angles of Aaron Eckhart's nose and chin, which compel obedience and team spirit from the embattled Marines through sheer sharpness and pointedness.

From Salon • Mar. 10, 2011

Appell, however, interprets the condition correctly and assigns the cause with accuracy and pointedness.

From Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century by Hewett-Thayer, Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman)