pointedness
Example Sentences
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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
Post-inauguration cold opens have varied in pointedness, becoming increasingly dependent on A-lister cameos of administration officials starting with Melissa McCarthy’s impersonation of Sean Spicer.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 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
Characterized by simplicity, order, and a trenchant pointedness, his prose style was "a principal means" of his "advancement."
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Chester E. Jorgenson
