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

You may be sensing a pointedness to my tone.

From Salon • Nov. 27, 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

Looking to the circumstances in which he was placed, it is almost impossible for any one not to be struck by the weight and pointedness of his answers.

From Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth by Tyler, James Endell