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pointedness



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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 the pointedness of Bosworth’s latest comments struck a nerve.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2021

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

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

Though far from being an orator, he wielded a pen that for clearness and logical pointedness has scarcely been surpassed, and his powers of irony and sarcasm were worthy of Swift himself.

From Benjamin Franklin by Paul Elmer More




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