11.   Out of glittering reviews and commercial success has also emerged pointed criticism.

12.   Pointed criticism of a major ally is rare in diplomatic circles, and the effort to single out Japan as an obstacle comes at an especially sensitive time.

13.   Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi, the Senate majority leader, used his nominating speech for Cheney to deliver pointed criticism of congressional Democrats opposed to tax cuts.

14.   Some were seemingly intentional, like a pointed criticism of China and India.

15.   Some witnesses offered pointed criticism.

16.   The authors of the explosion thesis, the paper said, totally ignored the most pointed criticisms of the review team and constantly shifted scenarios.

17.   The lower court judge, Andrew Smithson of Superior Court in Trenton, had dismissed the indictment on several grounds but directed his most pointed criticism at Verniero.

18.   The most pointed criticism has come from the patriarch of the Maronite Christians of Lebanon, Cardinal Nasrallah Pierre Sfeir.

19.   The most pointed criticism came from Ambrose Bierce, in his Prattle column in the local weekly, The Wasp.

20.   The most pointed criticism has come in a new book published by the Library of Contemporary Thought.