Example sentences for: pointedly

How can you use “pointedly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The incident was, however, noticed by the NSC counterterrorism staff, which pointedly asked to be kept in the loop in the future.

  • Revolutions don't work, wrote the Pole Jacek Kuron in the French newspaper Liberation , pointedly on the 200 th anniversary of the French Revolution of 1789.

  • For another, it ends with Liza Minelli parading through a series of phantasmagoric stage sets singing a pointedly ironic song called "Happy Endings"--a sequence every bit as dazzling (and as mystifying) as the ballet from An American in Paris . Just as Mean Streets is an unparalleled demonstration of the power of film to convey reality, "Happy Endings" is a celebration of film's magical ability to create it.

  • But many more women wear a new version of pointedly Islamic costume.

  • Rafferty uses the word "moral" quite pointedly.


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