pointedness

Example Sentences

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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

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

Its broken versification points out Shakspeare; the quaintness of some conceits is his; and several of the phrases and images have much of his pointedness, brevity, or obscurity.

From A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy by Spalding, William