Mr. Olmert pointedly contrasted Mr. Clinton's schedule to that of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York, who spent most of his time in Jerusalem.

The film pointedly contrasts contemporary Afrocentric rhetoric with recollections of the era not so long ago when to describe someone as black or African was considered a gross insult.

Pointedly contrasted with the valiant Luisa are the boy's devoutly religious, scolding Aunt Carmela (Mary Lou Rosato), and Guendolina (Joanna Merlin), an embittered termagant to whose home Grandpa dispatches Gennaro with an urgent deathbed plea.

The final rejection of her romantic hopes, in an ugly scene of death by poisoning, contrasts pointedly with the description, early in Part Three, of Emma and Leon's meeting in the Rouen Cathedral.

Mr. Ehrlichman pointedly contrasted Mr. Nixon's domestic activism with President Reagan's policies, which he characterized as "a sense of almost governmental indifference to the problems of needy Americans."

Though Mr. Card says that some speakers will pointedly contrast Republican and Democratic policies, the accent will remain on the positive.

Dr John pointedly contrasts the coal mine with the factory, for in the former technical advances displaced women.

Throughout her argument, Ms. Moore pointedly contrasted the violent actions of which the defendants are charged with the altruism of several other blacks at the riot scene who had testified about their efforts to help the riot victims.

Last month's blackout inspired a further flurry of articles, which pointedly contrasted the apocalyptic looting and burning of the summer of 1977 with the pastoral barhopping and barbecuing of 2003.

Painted when the artist was yet 31, the work severely and pointedly contrasts the grandeur and might of a cloud-born Olympian male deity against that of a diminutive and half nude nymph.