pointedness

Example Sentences

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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

Post-inauguration versions have varied in pointedness, becoming increasingly dependent on A-lister cameos of administration officials to make a mark, starting with Melissa McCarthy’s impersonation of Sean Spicer.

From Salon • Oct. 7, 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

This sentence, and especially this word “second,” should be given the pointedness of conversation, and then will naturally follow the account of his escape.

From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by Curry, S. S. (Samuel Silas)