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Tormentors Change, but Not the Torment

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How are your New Year’s goals going? Have you taken time to relax, à la the sitter in Morisot’s pastel, Daydreaming? Or are you getting more exercise like Degas’s Dancer Making Points?

To learn more about these paintings, check out this month's #FrenchPaintingsFriday research entries at https://nelson-atkins.org/french-painting.

pointed

/ˈpɔɪntɪd/

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adjective

1. 1.

   having a sharpened or tapered tip or end.

   "his face tapers to a pointed chin"

   Similar:

   sharp

   spearlike

   needle-like

   spear-shaped

   V-shaped

   tapering

   tapered

   cone-shaped

   conic

   conical

   acute

   sharp-cornered

   wedge-shaped

   sharp-edged

   edged

   jagged

   spiky

   spiked

   barbed

   pointy

   acicular

   lanceolate

   acuminate

   subulate

   mucronate

   aculeate

   cuspidate

   cusped

   conoid
2. 2.

   (of a remark or look) expressing criticism in a direct and unambiguous way.

   "pointed comments were made about racial discrimination within the army"

tormentor
/tɔːˈmɛntə/
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noun
a person who inflicts severe mental or physical suffering on someone.
"they help victims of domestic violence escape their tormentors"

Illuminated by gas footlights in the midst of a performance, a dancer “makes points,” or draws forms with her pointed foot. Edgar Degas's daring, asymmetrical composition and the angled perspective he produced by the diagonal lines of the floorboards emphasize the sensation of plunging space.

Dancer Making Points – Works - The Nelson-Atkins Museum ...