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
You may be sensing a pointedness to my tone.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 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
Few cars have the pointedness, the intentionality of a 911 at speed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2016
He has sanity lucidity, pointedness, sometimes epigrammatic piquancy, of expression, dignity without pompousness or grandiloquence, feeling without hysteria.
From Haydn by John F. Runciman
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