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Pointed in sentence

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These crude tools were around for thousands of centuries, until around 1.4 million years ago when Homo erectus started shaping single, thin stone blades, sometimes rounded ovals, but often in what are to our eyes an arresting, symmetrical pointed leaf or teardrop form.
And I was at the White House for President Bush, meeting with every federal department and agency, and I pointed out that they appear to have no plan.
So, as Kevin Kelly pointed out, there is no endgame.
Because in poetics, as Margaret Atwood pointed out, "we write our history on the skin of fish with the blood of bears."
And in the time since Galileo pointed that rudimentary telescope at the celestial bodies, the known universe has come to us through light, across vast eras in cosmic history.
And he pointed at the screen, he said, "He's in that firefight."
And as Jay Walker pointed out, that is just not scary enough.
He could not fight this war, and no maps pointed home.
There have been some very vocal atheists who've pointed out, not just that religion is wrong, but that it's ridiculous.
And he pointed to the busloads of tourists that would show up everyday, with cameras ready usually.
So this was a problem, and Peter Dodson pointed this out using some duck-billed dinosaurs then called Hypacrosaurus.
A pointed, piercing tube.
Now, if you're not currently experiencing the joy of the joint tax return, I can't tell you how to find a chore-loving person of the approximately ideal size and attractiveness, who prefers horror movies and doesn't have a lot of friends hovering on the brink of divorce, but I can only encourage you to try, because the benefits, as I've pointed out, are significant.
And it's pointed at the hypersonic glider.
The idea dates from 1960, when a young astronomer by the name of Frank Drake used this antenna in West Virginia, pointed it at a couple of nearby stars in the hopes of eavesdropping on E.T. Now, Frank didn't hear anything.
DNA researcher Andrew Hessel has pointed out quite rightly that if you can use cancer treatments, modern cancer treatments, to go after one cell while leaving all the other cells around it intact, then you can also go after any one person's cell.
VV: So ... (Applause) So the thing about this is that if the pointer, unfortunately, had pointed to the red spot, we would have to rush you to a hospital.
And if it had pointed to the orange or the amber, it basically meant you had to have, sort of, more continuous care from the health care worker.
As Franklin Pierce Adams pointed out, "Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory."
Then he pointed toward this barely visible footpath, and said, "This is the path, this is the path.
Now, my first pointed and memorable experience with leadership in Ghana occurred when I was 16 years old.
It had a driver and a passenger, and after the car had passed the judge by, the passenger extended his hand, pointed it back to the judge as the car continued on, just as the teenagers had described it, right?
He pointed by, and this is what the judge saw.
There's an arm sticking out of the passenger side and pointed back at you.
He pointed at three grains of rice at the bottom of my bowl, and he said, "Clean."
The reassuring thing about this particular survey was, when it was pointed out to people how far their estimates were from the actual data, some of them — not all of them — seemed to become more willing to consider increases in foreign aid.
Darwin was probably one of the first scientists to systematically investigate the human emotions, and he pointed to the universal nature and the strength of the disgust response.
The beast walks sideways on the wet sand of the beach, with its nose pointed into the wind.
My secret was that I had this gun loaded with hollow-point bullets pointed at my head by the man who I thought was my soulmate, many, many times.
As Dirk Helbing pointed out in the last quote, we don't really understand the complexity that relates to us, that surrounds us.
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