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pointed and humorous
The London underground is nicknamed " The Tube " A nickname is " a usually familiar or humorous but sometimes pointed or cruel name given to a person or place, as a supposedly appropriate replacement for or addition to the proper name ", or a name similar in origin and pronunciation from the original name.
The portraits of Conscience show him with a long smooth hairdo, contemplative dark eyes under heavy brows, a pointed nose, and a humorous broad mouth ; in later life he wore a long white beard.
Reconstructing the band under their leadership, Marrs and Wammo began to expand the act's boundaries to include more cross-genre experimentation, more intricate arrangements and vocal harmonies, and, most successfully, more humorous songs, sometimes with pointed social and cultural commentary.
The pointed toe was called the winkle picker toe because in England periwinkle snails or winkles are or were a popular seaside snack, which is eaten using a pin or other pointed object to carefully extract the soft parts out of the coiled shell, hence the phrase: " to winkle something out ", and from that, winklepickers as a humorous name for shoes with a very pointed tip.
Woods pointed out some awkward features of rational thermodynamics in a paper entitled “ The bogus axioms of continuum mechanics .” 57 And Ronald Samuel Rivlin ( 1915 – 2005 ) delighted a worldwide audience with a frequently repeated humorous lecture under the title “ On red herrings and other sundry unidentified fish in modern continuum mechanics .”

pointed and verse
" Although nothing explicitly suggests that all four poems are by the same poet, comparative analysis of dialect, verse form, and diction have pointed towards single-authorship.
Sold again at Sotheby ’ s and acquired by the British Library in 1975, the autograph is, as its first editor P. J. Croft pointed out, " the largest body of verse to have survived from the Elizabethan period in a text entirely set down by the poet himself ".
Although nothing explicitly suggests that all four poems are by the same poet, comparative analysis of dialect, verse form, and diction have pointed towards single-authorship.
Although nothing explicitly suggests that all four poems are by the same poet, comparative analysis of dialect, verse form, and diction have pointed towards single-authorship.
When an admirer too often told Johnson of the beautiful " simplicity " of the ballad verse form, Johnson pointed out that the line between simplicity and simple mindedness is narrow: just remove the sense.
His father saw drops of milk on the child's mouth and asked who had fed him, whereupon the boy pointed to the sky and responded with the song Todudaya Seviyan, the first verse of the Tevaram.
As a pointed counterpoint to the verse echoes of ancient Vedantic philosophy (" wall of illusion " " When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find peace of mind is waiting there ") a sawal-jawab ( musical dialogue ) begins in 5 / 4 time between first the dilruba and Harrison's sitar, then between the full Western string section and Harrison's sitar, this tellingly resolving into a melody in unison and together stating the tihai that closes the middle segment.
Another problem, pointed out by Brown, is that Rahab's position in this verse does not meet other traditions.
The boy pointed out an error in the very first verse.
The poet admitted it and proceeded with the next verse, and the boy pointed out two mistakes.
In the third verse, he pointed out three mistakes and so on.
In combination with the next verse it seems to be clear that the star pointed out the specific house Jesus was in, or perhaps the entire village.

pointed and open
Those who wanted to close the theaters, for example, pointed to Plato's Republic and those who wished to keep them open called on the Plato of the Ion to testify in their behalf.
The handler should wait two minutes with the firearm pointed in a safe direction, then carefully remove the magazine, extract any misfed or misfired cartridge, and with the breech open carefully check to ensure there is not a bullet or other obstruction lodged in the barrel.
Furthermore, C. Zenghelis pointed out that, based on experiments, the actual result of the water-quicklime reaction would be negligible in the open sea.
When coming to Kubla Khan, he pointed out: " instead of being content to have written finely under the influence of laudanum, recommends ' Kubla-Khan ' to his readers, not as a poem, but as ' a psychological curiosity ' ... Every lover of books, scholar or not, who knows what it is to have his quarto open against a loaf at his tea ... ought to be in possession of Mr. Coleridge's poems, if it is only for ' Christabel ', ' Kubla Khan ', and the ' Ancient Mariner '.
The doors flew open and officers pointed their weapons at the angry crowd, threatening to shoot.
Bryant pointed the gun at Pears and pushed him backwards, eventually directing him into the now open boot of the BMW, locking Pears inside.
Osmańczyk pointed out that there is a difference between open gentlemen's agreements and secret diplomatic agreements.
St Kitts and Nevis Commissioner, Cedric Liburd, pointed out to various anti whaling counties during debate on the secret ballot vote on the first day of the 2006 meeting in St Kitts that it was extremely hypocritical of such countries to pontificate on the need for transparency within the IWC by open voting when such countries quite happily voted via secret ballot in CITES, a similar management body.
Dalton pointed out that a small column, travelling in open country and burdened with carts full of hospital patients, would be easily overtaken and defeated by a numerically superior Zulu force, and so it was soon agreed that the only acceptable course was to remain and fight.
In a depiction of a duel, individuals may be seen wielding sharply pointed longswords in one hand, leaving the other hand open to manipulate the large dueling shield.
A canoe ( North American English ) or Canadian canoe ( British English ) is a small narrow boat typically pointed at both ends and open on top, propelled by one or more seated or kneeling paddlers facing the direction of travel using a single-bladed paddle.
Contrariwise, more democratically-inclined theorists have pointed to examples of meritocratic leaders, such as the Napoleonic marshals profiting from careers open to talent.
These critics pointed to the open access policy for gene sequences from the publicly funded Human Genome Project.
The roof was opened by the Premier of the Province, David Peterson, who pointed a laser pen at the ceiling to officially ' open ' it.
Those birds with blade-like bill tips pry open or smash mollusc shells, and those with pointed bill tips tend to probe for annelid worms.
Seeds are tiny and black, held in long pointed pods that split open when ripe.
Scholars Casson and Ryan have pointed out several policy-based reasons for adoption of open source, in particular, the heightened value proposition from open source ( when compared to most proprietary formats ) in the following categories:
When facing mammalian predators, they move toward the predator with their wings open and their bill pointed towards it.
With great conscientiousness Gobert pointed out the striking differences between the writing of the bordereau and that of the documents which were given to him for comparison, the " personal folio " of Dreyfus, from which his name had been erased but the dates left, so that it was easy to identify him from the army list ; there were some letters which struck the experienced eye at once, such as the open g ( made like a y ) and the double s made in the form fs, features which were to be found only in the bordereau.
" Like Ebert, Canby pointed out that the political atmosphere of the film fills in the blanks left open by a relatively superficial plot.
Then, a series of pointed teeth and notches on the blade called bittings allow pins or wafers to move up and down until they are in line with the shear line of the inner and outer cylinder, allowing the cylinder or cam to rotate freely inside the lock and the lock to open.
" After this talk, Nash pointed Stott to Revelation 3: 20, " Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
All undergraduate gowns resemble knee-length versions of the BA gown, and the basic gown is black, reaching down to just below the knees with an open pointed sleeve and the forearm seam left open.

pointed and letter
After receiving the Austrian letter, Serbia arrested Major Voja Tankosić ( a member of the Black Hand committee who had been pointed out by the assassins ) but then promptly released him and returned him to his unit.
The letter was about their father's suicide and, in it, Arthur pointed to Johanna as being responsible for the tragedy, rumoured to be a suicide, saying that, whilst their father suffered ill in bed, abandoned to the care of an employee, Johanna amused herself in social reunions and gave her husband none of her time.
In 1988, Callaghan's wife Audrey, a former chairman ( 1969 – 1982 ) of Great Ormond Street Hospital, spotted a letter to a newspaper which pointed out that the copyright of Peter Pan, which had been assigned by J. M. Barrie to the hospital, was about to expire.
Tolkien does not describe Hobbits ' ears in The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings, but in a 1938 letter to his American publisher, he described Hobbits as having " ears only slightly pointed and ' elvish '".
In particular, the bow of the letter a is particularly sharp and pointed.
:::" and the letter which spreads out into Pythagorean branches has pointed out to you the steep path which rises on the right.
It may also be pointed out that in the letter to Brisbane of 28 July 1824, Hovell signed first.
On the other hand, it is sometimes pointed out that the capital Latin letter " A " is not unified with the Greek letter " Α " ( Alpha ).
Adler reports that evidence pointed to early police suspect Frank Z. Wilson, and cites Hilda Erickson's letter, which states that Hill had told her he had been shot by her former fiance.
A letter in Sky & Telescope magazine at this time pointed to pairs of large craters ( e. g. the Clearwater Lakes in Quebec ) also suggesting asteroids having companions.
The letter pointed out several similarities between their work and " Cog ", and warned the agency that they were considering legal action on the basis of the " commercialisation and simplification of the film's content and the false impression that might have endorsed the use ".
Although a subsequent letter pointed out that the farthing was still legal tender in sums up to one shilling, by 1956 it was apparent that due to inflation the farthing had outlived its usefulness, and minting ceased after that year.
In semaphore the letter " N " is formed by a person holding two flags in an inverted " V ," and the letter " D " is formed by holding one flag pointed straight up and the other pointed straight down.
Feith pointed out in a September 16, 2004 letter to the editor of the Washington Post that he was not the co-author and did not clear the report's final text.
It still remains a highly controversial topic, especially with regard to the contents of the letter Giuliano received before it ; the finger of blame has been pointed at numerous sources, including the Italian government, which had long sought to destroy the famous bandit.
These theories themselves prove problematic, as the letter constitutes only one data point, and are therefore insufficient in reconstructing broad conclusions about Cornelia ’ s political ideals or making inferences about nebulous ideas of “ maternal devotion .” As has also been pointed out, if they do in fact represent the work of a forger, he was an expert in the grammar, language, and writing style of the late 2nd century Roman elite.
In a letter to Nature pointed at the original title of their 1998 article: Northern Hemisphere temperatures during the past millennium: inferences, uncertainties, and limitations and pointed out more widespread high-resolution data are needed before more confident conclusions can be reached and that the uncertainties were the point of the article.
In 1958 however, he received a letter from Saul Kripke, who pointed out that this assumption is perhaps unwarranted.
In a response letter after transmission script editor Terrance Dicks pointed out that all the titles used for the project had originated in the Doctor Who production office.
( A letter from a fan once pointed out that since " to err is human ", the constantly erring Groo must be the most human character ever created.

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