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

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

Few cars have the pointedness, the intentionality of a 911 at speed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2016

Moreover, certain things can be determined only by touching, i. e., the fineness of papers, cloth, etc., the sharpness or pointedness of instruments, or the rawness of objects.

From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf