I asked more pointedly, "What did they do to get people to talk?"

She pointedly asked him whether he followed his own advice.

Tom asked pointedly, with a glance at his wrist watch.

But others pointedly asked why the official press had been muzzled.

He asked pointedly if I was carrying anything resembling a weapon.

"And what did he do," Mason asked pointedly, "to protect his daughter from you?"

But with one exception, who pointedly asked not to be named, all said they would be happy to do so.

He bent down again and asked pointedly, "Is this tunnel of yours big enough for me?"

It was definitely a sample, something Corvus had pointedly asked for.

Once there, he gave a speech and pointedly asked how this small group of men planned to take a city of 12,000 people.