finger-pointing

The act of pointing a finger or fingers.

Fortunately, more often, these authorial throat-clearings and finger-pointings enrich the text. Even the sample quoted above moves on to a vivid evocation of the very physical aspects of a hunt. Perhaps surprisingly for a writer so easily caricatured as a dry Marxist theoretician, Berger excels in such sensual descriptions.

Colleagues complained that Mr Raab’s “physical gestures” were used in a threatening way. Loud banging on tables and finger-pointing were among the allegations.

The making of accusations; the assigning of blame.

With the folding in November of Los Angeles Opera Theater came the expected finger-pointings and second-guessings among company officials.

A huge amount of material on this matter has come into public view: allegations and leaks, backgrounders and briefings, statements and press conferences, sidesteppings and finger-pointings.