How To Use Pointedly In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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She looked pointedly at the clock on the kitchen wall.
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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
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They spin out conservative versions of an already entrenched style, pointedly resisting the challenges presented by artists like Leonardo.
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Even silverback men will pointedly go back to adolescent clothes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Chairman Oberstar pointedly noted that system may be addressed -- or even "abolished" -- by future Congressional action.
Aero-News Network
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Brooke nudged him and looked pointedly in the direction of the man in the elevator with them.
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When the reprobates returned to beg forgiveness, Cecily pointedly asked Algernon why he had pretended to be Ernest.
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While I'm of the understanding that a number of church-based welfare agencies are pointedly non-proselytic (for example, it's a violation of Centrecare's code of ethics and social justice policy*), the same isn't true of a number of religious aid initiatives.
Thinkers' Podium
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But the dust jacket of an old edition says pointedly that the book is “the story of a faithful Irish steam-shovel artist and his steam shovel — the beguiling Mary Anne.”
2007 July « One-Minute Book Reviews
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Handwoven baskets, ornamental wooden spoons, lengths of cloth (wrapped around me, head to foot), the admonition that I must not forget to write to them with news of my parents and bava Johnthis combination of gifts and counsel pointedly expressed the full meaning of xitsundzuxo as memento, reminder, and advice, 2 a simultaneously material and oral invocation of memory.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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We must always avoid using the pulpit to say the pointedly personal things we are too timid to say to an individual.
Christianity Today
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Presently he became aware that she was understood to be singing pointedly to him: upon which he dismissed the council of his sensations, and began to diplomatize cleverly.
Sandra Belloni — Complete
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Bron froze and stared pointedly at the finger, his whiskers vibrating crazily.
BEHINDLINGS
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Yet the Island editorial, which was pointedly headlined ‘The known devil is preferable’, also contained a note of apprehension.
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But I pointedly and publicly criticized my colleagues when they engaged in alarmism and selective reporting.
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The boss pointedly does not endorse this view but admits the question is complex.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ads he is financing this weekend refer pointedly to the Council, reminding voters of a "slush fund scandal" involving fake community organizations, but conspicuously ignore the mayor.
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The program pointedly covers issues that career-cowed mainstream and even most nonmainstream broadcast media people flat-out can't or simply refuse to touch.
- 911truth.org
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Godwin, very pointedly, was staring at a sheaf of continuous paper on his lap.
THE LAST RAVEN
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When he didn't get sex, he always seemed to move slow and disappointedly.
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Tandja - who pointedly refers to it only as "banditry" - not least because it is flaring in a region hosting uranium mines crucial to the country's economy.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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It pointedly cited "a substantial deterioration" in international economic conditions, which shows "signs of a disinflationary bias.
Brazil Rate Cut Could Start Broad Anti-Recession Drive
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The demand for an apology was pointedly refused.
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It's an early research step… towards curing devastating diseases," said Dieter Egli of the New York Stem Cell Foundation Laboratory in New York City and a co-author of the study, which pointedly doesn't use the word "cloning" to describe the results.
Cloning Offers Stem-Cell Hope
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She pointedly turns away to avoid looking at a street person struggling with a laundry cart overflowing with stuff.
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She pointedly quotes Adorno in reference to the relationship between insanity and creative impulse.
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He blanched a little, and looked pointedly away, sitting a bit straighter.
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The Bloody Sword ignored him pointedly and buckled his sword belt over his embroidered jerkin.
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Paramount is pointedly organizing the episodes in the order of production rather than by the air dates.
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He pointedly remarks, "You don't have to help anybody."
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When McCarthy asked Welch to define "pixie," Welch replied pointedly, "a pixie is a close relative of a fairy.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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After that Colin pointedly abstained from allusion to the Ideal Wife and to Joan Gildea's Typewriting-Correspondent, as he had called her.
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
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It's wise to listen more and talk less. It's wise to talk pointedly and briefly. Dr T.P.Chia
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Presently, there was a lightening of foliage and I thought, almost disappointedly, all that panic for nothing.
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They were pointedly absent from the news conference.
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When asked pointedly why he can't accept the truth, Cody replies, exasperated, "Because I got a better sense of history than that!"
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His book of confessions pointedly describes how that course brought him personal abuse from the two sides.
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On the sleeve, he lists a few dedications, and then pointedly says that this is ‘for no one else.’
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Finally, industrial clusters development policies and advice are pointedly proposed to promote the midland region progress.
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We must always avoid using the pulpit to say the pointedly personal things we are too timid to say to an individual.
Christianity Today
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At the April G20 summit in London, France's Nicolas Sarkozy and Germany's Angela Merkel stood shoulder-to-shoulder to insist pointedly that this recession was not of their making.
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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
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I'll drink to her; but I'm hanged if I don't believe you're codding me," said Merrihew disappointedly.
The Lure of the Mask
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Joe Manchin won in West Virginia - after pointedly distancing himself from Obama - for the unexpired portion of the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd's term, and Attorney General Richard Blumenthal was victorious in Connecticut, dispatching Linda McMahon, former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment.
Republicans Win Control Of The House
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The peril was pointedly illustrated when, during Obama's signing of his historic health-care reform legislation, a microphone picked up Biden telling him the passage was a big deal, with expletive undeleted.
Jules Witcover: Obama's Sidekick Joe Biden: Understanding The Vice President
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Well, today in another unlinked article - pointedly positioned under a picture of a mangled car - Monash's Ian Johnston gets the right of reply…
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Elements of transformation, however, occur most pointedly in the encounter with otherness.
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She looked pointedly at the clock on the kitchen wall.
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They had been preaching and pointedly praying from their respective pulpits for an election devoid of violence.
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Toward the end of my grilling, one examiner pointedly asked me how much time I had in that particular type of plane.
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Michael Moore, who had been introducing Nader at rallies around the country, pointedly refused to accompany him to swing states, and launched a series of bromides on his widely visited website stressing the importance of defeating Bush.
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Godwin, very pointedly, was staring at a sheaf of continuous paper on his lap.
THE LAST RAVEN
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Pointedly punctuating the film are aerial shots of the megalopolis rendered abstract by its immense repetitiveness.
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Staring pointedly at her, Clark slaps his hand around the macramé bag on the counter and shoves it into Lynn's grasp.
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She finishes her typing with a drawn-out pressing of the enter key and looks pointedly at her sister.
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One problem is that before February 2003, reorders did not appear in the sales charts — so a comic book would pointedly not appear twice," Miller writes.
Obama and Spider-Man win again (But is it ‘unprecedented’?) | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
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Props to the restaurant for not pointedly bringing our check as we were lingering over desert or having them bring us basket after basket of bread to soak up every last drop of sauce from our various dishes.
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More pointedly, likelihoods of DSGE models are full of local maxima and minima and of nearly flat surfaces.
The best paper I read this month
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He looked around pointedly at the ritual paraphernalia which surrounded us.
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Not only will people pointedly fail to attend your rallies there, but your intrusive business activities will receive notice from new jacks-in-office with amazingly narrow-minded views on what is permissible.
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Note that the definition pointedly includes nonviolent actions name calling against a child.
It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend
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The intention of eating his chrysanthemums is suggested rather pointedly in a number of paintings dating from the early Qing.
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The big men , who command loyalty and weapons on the ground in Darfur, pointedly stayed away.
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During the 1960s, when the New York art world tended to downgrade virtually all contemporary art that wasn't made by New York male abstractionists, you pointedly invited European and Asian artists into your festivals.
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The relationship between the two portraits is pointedly ambiguous: they may be different people or they may represent two views of the same woman.
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But all too pointedly the fledgeling assortment into the azonal of cyclopaedia celiocentesis unjustness end up stylish, bountied or polyphonically sheer the transvestite of meyerhof or kyphosus.
Rational Review
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Constantin, I have said, in pointedly unsubtle language, that Clarence Thomas was unqualified to succeed Thurgood Marshall and that, when his confirmation was at risk, he played the race card in a particularly ugly manner.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Miguel Estrada Writes in Support of Elena Kagan’s Confirmation
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It's an unavoidably communal experience; no matter how pointedly you pile shopping bags and assorted impedimenta on the seat beside you, sooner or later someone's going to insist on initiating a conversation.
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The director is coughing pointedly and fretting over air conditioning.
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One reason, suggests Neil Roland, an artist and photographer related to the Laski family, one of Manchester's great Jewish dynasties, could be that Ed has very pointedly dismissed the Jewish side of things.
Ed Miliband gets lukewarm welcome from north of England Jews
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Pointedly, the book vilifies the usurper Eve but saves its most caustic bitchiness for the bland dilettante-housewife Karen.
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Hill is affronted by the World Cup winner's aloofness and relates an incident in which, after a match at Old Trafford, the United No9 pointedly asks him why he's drinking in the players' lounge.
Who's the sycophant in the black? | Harry Pearson
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The egg timer was pointedly positioned next to the telephone.
CORMORANT
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she left the gambling table disappointedly
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She looked pointedly at the clock on the kitchen wall.
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He pointedly shot a questioning glance at Lino, nodding his head towards Mel and Jessica.
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She pointedly told Ito that his wife, who is now cohead of the police Internal Affairs Division and was briefly Fuhrman's boss, was among those slurred by Fuhrman.
Who's On Trial Now?
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I hide under my blanket and close my tired and swollen eyes disappointedly.
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Margarethe begins to sulk at Henrika and, from time to time, to disagree pointedly, even noisily, over methods of housewifery.
CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
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In Part Three, Cusick pointedly refers to Exodus when he compares the crossing of the Mississippi on a vine that breaks to the parting of the Red Sea.
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More pointedly, personal reality is not to be confused with ‘the presence of certain activities’ (either in the conceptus or the adult).
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A pointedly different dimension in the development of a new manager emerged from the research described in these chapters.
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But she pointedly warned Haitian leaders that such calls should be "heeded," saying they reflect growing frustration at the lack of progress in the troubled country.
Thestar.com - Home Page
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After thanking Wriothelesly for how he treated her servant, Mary then requested that Wriothelesly take Queen Catherine's old servant, Anthony Coke, into service and declared pointedly that "I do love hym well.
From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
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It doesn’t singularize the lover, writing over and over again, “beloveds,” and the pointedly awkward “yous.”
Essentialism? Say What? : Emily Warn : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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He ignored him so pointedly that eventually Crassus stamped off in a rage, leaving a dozen or so gray-headed senators gathered around Nepos.
CONSPIRATA
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Disappointedly, as it becomes a general mood of society, no one is vulnerable to it.
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My frown slowly melted into a full fledged scowl at her ‘compliment’ and I bit the inside of my cheek, pointedly refusing to acknowledge her.
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Morrison painstakingly describes the privilege of those with diamond stickpins, fine cigars and monogrammed silver, pointedly contrasting it with a world in which a child's bedroom is a luxury.
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The boss pointedly does not endorse this view but admits the question is complex.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the ballade to Philippe, then, the ‘cueur en gage’ likely would not seem particularly clever or pointedly topical.
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Even more pointedly, they argue that dealing with one client may increase the burden on others in equal need.
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• Royal wedding news now, and wasn't it kind of Alton Towers to give the Duchess of Fergie the chance to compere its wedding coverage on April 29, especially as pointedly, and poignantly, she hasn't been invited to the much awaited love-in?
Hugh Muir's diary
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‘That's alright, I willingly give up my share to any takers,’ she said pointedly, directing her comment to Ray-Ray who was acting blissfully ignorant.
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She pointedly puts the cap on her camera lens and walks with him.
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The loosening up of clothing for women in the 1970s, begun by "unisex" fashions and kicked into high gear by feminists and Lesbians, occurred not from women who tried to dress "like men" but by women who pointedly said "I'm dressing like a woman, this is how women dress" as they rejected the boxes.
BROAD CAST AND UPDATES, 29 OCTOBER 2007
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Over the next few days, the princess pointedly ignored Ramirez, choosing to spend time with Kamiko instead in romantic dalliance.
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Due to the built-in confessional quotas of the Lebanese political system, and the fact that Hizbullah has pointedly refrained from seeking more parliament seats than it won in 2005, a March 8th majority would — by necessity — have to be dominated by the Michel Aoun-led Change & Reform bloc.
Global Voices in English » Lebanon: From the Election Campaign Trail
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And I was, all stiff and touch-me-not and very pointedly avoiding the question of whether she was going to hitch a ride from me and Dodie in our little Eclipse.
Archive 2008-10-01
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The usual complaints about the presentation of Match of the Day by a cozy, dozy gang of highly remunerated ex-pros were reinforced on Saturday night after the programme had shown an interview in which Neil Warnock very pointedly accusing Robin van Persie of making persistent fouling part of his modus operandi.
Sir Alex Ferguson wants three more years, but he might not get them | Richard Williams
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The boss pointedly does not endorse this view but admits the question is complex.
Times, Sunday Times
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We must always avoid using the pulpit to say the pointedly personal things we are too timid to say to an individual.
Christianity Today
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he pointedly ignored the question
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John Herbison: Constantin, I have said, in pointedly unsubtle language, that Clarence Thomas was unqualified to succeed Thurgood Marshall and that, when his confirmation was at risk, he played the race card in a particularly ugly manner.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Miguel Estrada Writes in Support of Elena Kagan’s Confirmation
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Instead, you’ve invested an incredible amount of time and effort in pointedly avoiding making an argument that could be responded to.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Palestinian “Peace Activists”
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He glorified the idea of being "childishly pure," which makes excellent sense for a man pointedly unable to grow up.
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Here is a voice in every way opposed to Martin's: it's angular, assumed, pointedly unnatural.
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But all too pointedly the fledgeling assortment into the azonal of cyclopaedia celiocentesis unjustness end up stylish, bountied or polyphonically sheer the transvestite of meyerhof or kyphosus.
Rational Review
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Perhaps more pointedly, the backlash to the law had contributed to the defeat of John Adams and to the ultimate demise of the Federalist Party.
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Even more pointedly, they argue that dealing with one client may increase the burden on others in equal need.
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Even beyond this the music remains singleminded in character, seamless rather than sectional, unlike the symphony's passacaglia, and pointedly in the final bars, returning to the opening theme, now treated in imitation.
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Mr. Lake accepted, introduced Sara as ‘Miss Kreyssler, a friend visiting from abroad’, and then pointedly asked their thoughts and views on the charcoals while offering no hint to what he himself thought.
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Not a lot of demand for Porsche parts, around here,' he added pointedly.
LOST SUMMER
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And surely part of the problem was that while everyone thought they knew him, he kind of pointedly revealed that nobody ever quite understood him.
