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

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

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 greeted me with more graciousness than I had expected, enquiring after my health with pointedness and an amount of tender solicitude that, until the explanation broke upon me, somewhat puzzled me.

From Paul Kelver, a Novel by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)