Thursday, the ex-senator praised the army of volunteers that has gutted hundreds of houses and removed debris, but he pointedly omitted any recognition of the patchy official efforts.

Mr. Justice Wright, after pointedly omitting the customary thanks to the jury, passed the mandatory sentence of death on William Herbert Wallace.

(Newhall pointedly omits mentioning the nonart aspects of this show.)

It pointedly omits the word "books," a gesture to electronic and other emerging forms of publishing that go beyond ink and paper.

But he pointedly omitted Islamic militants in an invitation to various political factions to join a "national dialogue," referring to them only as "misled Algerian youth."

Although he criticized some of Stalin's crimes, he pointedly omitted any criticism of Lavrenti Beria, the secret-police chief killed soon after Stalin died.

The hyperrealistic screenplay sketches Tracy's family relationships in an elliptical style that pointedly omits neat explanations in underlined sentences; you have to read between the lines.

However, the Prologue cites the fall of Constantinople while pointedly omitting any praise of Constantine.

Congress is not considering environmental taxes, and the draft energy plan being circulated by the Bush Administration pointedly omits any new taes on fuels like gasoline.