(This is) the middling (stage of) single-pointedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mahamudra Eliminating the Darkness of Unawareness ��� Part Four: Enhancing Your Practice] Reference

Concentration is often called one-pointedness of mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Dharma] Reference

This is one-pointedness of mind or the ekagrata state.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sivananda Companion To Meditation] Reference

In the ekagrata state, we reach one-pointedness of mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sivananda Companion To Meditation] Reference

The pointedness of the following religious sonnet is very striking and sublime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference

His irritation at the pointedness in her voice made him pause before saying, "Uh, yes.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

I wondered, therefore, if we might see Bonfire Night taking on some of its old pointedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Real Meaning of Bonfire Night] Reference

The first is the stage of single-pointedness, when mind is single-pointedly settled on mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gelug-Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra ��� Session Ten] Reference

Appell, however, interprets the condition correctly and assigns the cause with accuracy and pointedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference

His tone had too much pointedness to suit her; he was delivering a moral, and intended her to take it in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fires of Heaven]

It is contrasted with one-pointedness or concentration which along with the physical practice of the asanas poses, is what yoga is about.    From Wordnik.com.  [la recolte - French Word-A-Day] Reference

It is contrasted with one-pointedness or concentration which along with the physical practice of the asanas (poses), is what yoga is about.    From Wordnik.com.  [la recolte - French Word-A-Day] Reference

As we rode out at the gateway, one of the men advised me with some pointedness to go back and get my own animal, assuring me the one I had would fail me on this expedition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860] Reference

One pointedness, balanced life, the divine or the perfect vision.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Hindus welcome endorsement of yoga in a Catholic publication] Reference

Lady Wishfort is unmatched for the vigour and pointedness of the tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Short Works of George Meredith] Reference

One-pointedness means enthusiasm, but enthusiasm is impossible without ideals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Education as Service] Reference

But the pointedness and sharpness of his usually so scintillating words were absent this time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paras. 200–299] Reference

She kept on him a moment, through her glasses and through his own, a certain pleasant pointedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ambassadors] Reference

Sri Yukteswar directed the study of his own disciples by the same intensive method of one-pointedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of a Yogi] Reference

'He's a sharp one, folk say,' said my aunt, with a pointedness in the remark which showed some anxiety.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilfrid Cumbermede] Reference

So bold in its fine pointedness, so permanent in its permanence, so vivid and confident in its ink flow.    From Wordnik.com.  [super eggplant] Reference

"Why, come on, Lydia," he cried with a good-humored pointedness, "I've been all over town looking for you.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Squirrel-Cage] Reference

The flow of boudoir Billingsgate in Lady Wishfort is unmatched for the vigour and pointedness of the tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

"You -- you -- you -- think my cousin Maurice loves Bertha?" she asked, hardly aware of the pointedness of her own question.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fairy Fingers A Novel] Reference

In this way, as the years pass, the teacher may find himself far from the early ideals that at first gave him one-pointedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Education as Service] Reference

He liked their taper and the rosy pointedness, those fingers, and the dry, neat way they had of slipping in between the threads.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference

Debates in Congress were characterized by an increasing pointedness, and stories of sea murders increased rather than diminished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Navy in the War] Reference

The Old Adam's restless curiosity must be checked and his foolishness, his dissipation of sprit turned to wisdom and one-pointedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thinking Reed] Reference

But we have yet to stumble on that community, free or slave, of which the same remark can not be made with equal truth and pointedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social relations in our Southern States,] Reference

But suddenly she perceived a new pointedness in her mother's biting summaries; and she turned, with a slightly startled look in her eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [V. V.'s Eyes] Reference

Most of our choreographers have understood the pointedness of these and other such questions, and they have answered in a variety of ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wheelchair Dancer] Reference

He was not a consecutive thinker, like Dryden, and cared less about the truth of his thought than about the pointedness of its expression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference

"The firing squad will do a better work in a few minutes," replied the lieutenant, with a grim pointedness that took Barney's breath away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mad King] Reference

A pointedness of present company that brought from O'Hay.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Lady of the Big House] Reference

“Or musical criticism,” Lute remarked, with no glance at all, but with a pointedness of present company that brought from O’Hay.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London] Reference