pointedly

How To Use pointedly In A Sentence

• Depardieu's flick-knife is stuck in his stomach, and the dying man's description of his attacker is pointedly applicable to Depardieu. Archive 2008-08-01
• Fujiwara's fictional art-market foundation is pointedly pre-Christian; he wants, he suggests, to reference a period before art was required to be "transcendental" or "moral" and link it to its strictly "commercialised" roots. Frieze art fair 2010 – review
• We can see hints of miasma too, again in the backstory, in the death of Semele and her pointedly untended grave. Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality
• She looked pointedly at the clock on the kitchen wall.
• The clues aren't obvious—very few will be decked in deerstalker hats or carrying a pipe, and they most pointedly do not say, "Elementary, my dear Watson," a phrase their hero never once uttered in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's works. The Case of the Sherlock Convention
• They spin out conservative versions of an already entrenched style, pointedly resisting the challenges presented by artists like Leonardo.
• Even silverback men will pointedly go back to adolescent clothes. Times, Sunday Times
• Chairman Oberstar pointedly noted that system may be addressed -- or even "abolished" -- by future Congressional action. Aero-News Network
• Brooke nudged him and looked pointedly in the direction of the man in the elevator with them.
• When the reprobates returned to beg forgiveness, Cecily pointedly asked Algernon why he had pretended to be Ernest.