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 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

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

The question was unpleasant in its directness, and, while put with perfect respect, its pointedness seemed cutting.

From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Mitford, Bertram