pointedness

“I’m saying that I have...people...who interest me,” Henry says, turning his body toward Alex now, speaking with a fumbling pointedness, as if it means something.

Despite the pointedness, however, gaming and bureaucracy are easy targets, and Tizano has more complicated concerns.

You may be sensing a pointedness to my tone.

It’s a steady tension that’s greatly enhanced by Kreutzer’s spatially conscious visual style, reminiscent of classic paranoid thrillers, in which her protagonist’s placement within an antiseptic interior or exterior long shot carries subjective pointedness.

“There was so much to take in — a combination of humor with a real pointedness to what they were saying,” she said.