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

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

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

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