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
You may be sensing a pointedness to my tone.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 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
Schumer has always been fearless about calling out double standards, including her own, but this season of her show has a political pointedness that both reflects the moment and drives it.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2015
She kept on him a moment, through her glasses and through his own, a certain pleasant pointedness.
From The Ambassadors by Henry James
