expressive vs pointed

expressive

adj
  • Effectively conveying thought or feeling. 

noun
  • Any word or phrase that expresses (that the speaker, writer, or signer has) a certain attitude toward or information about the referent. 

  • A word or phrase, belonging to a distinct word class or having distinct morphosyntactic properties, with semantic symbolism (for example, an onomatopoeia), variously considered either a synonym, a hypernym or a hyponym of ideophone. 

pointed

adj
  • Having a relevance to the matter at hand: pertinent, relevant. 

  • Directed negatively at a person or topic. 

  • That has a named, but otherwise arbitrary, point (called the basepoint) that remains unchanged during subsequent discussion and is kept track of during all operations. 

  • Sharp, barbed; not dull. 

  • In animals, having a coat pattern with points, that is, darkening of the extremities. 

How often have the words expressive and pointed occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )