pointedness
- a word derived from pointed.
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
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
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
The heroic measure, as it was now used, aimed at smoothness of melody and pointedness of expression, and in this the great master was Pope.
From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Botta, Anne C. Lynch
