21.   Frank scratches notes on a yellow legal pad and asks a few pointed questions.

22.   Funny how one pointed question has a way of whittling that lofty podium down a notch, negating more than a decade worth of triumphs.

23.   He declined to respond to more pointed questions about whether he saw any reason for the Fed to raise rates.

24.   He asks pointed questions worthy of a good financial journalist and gets insightful answers.

25.   He said tenants are asking more pointed questions about what constitutes an interruption of service.

26.   He gave curt answers to what he thought were pointed questions from a Texas media filled with UT exes.

27.   He has posed equally pointed questions to the rival Socialists.

28.   Here was the usually unflappable Clinton swallowing hard after pointed questions or downing water and Diet Coke like a near-dying man lost in the Sahara.

29.   However, he quickly noted that he probably could have avoided such pointed questions if he had simply changed the language of the job descriptions.

30.   I could flare unreasonably at the next pointed question asked by an enemy reporter.