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[ verb ] emphasize, esp. by identification
Examples "This novel points up the racial problems in England" Used in print (Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)American democratic thought , pointed_up the relation between the Protestant movement in_this country and the development of a social religion , which he called the American Democratic Faith . But I have been at some pains to review it as the drama of the common_man , to point_up what happened to him under Eisenhower 's leadership . (Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)For_example , one hebephrenic man used_to annoy me , month after month , by saying , whenever I got_up to leave and made my fairly steoreotyped comment that I would be seeing him on the following day , or whenever , `` You 're welcome '' , in a notably condescending fashion - as though it were his due for me to thank him for the privilege of spending the hour with him , and he were thus pointing_up my failure to utter a humbly grateful , `` thank_you '' to him at the end of each session . Related terms |
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