Pointing
Suggest
Suggest verb - To convey an idea indirectly.
Both words in one sentence
- For example, a young prophet dating Anton's daughter immediately agrees to go eat ice cream with Anton upon seeing him, pointing out that this is what Anton was going to suggest anyway.
Source: Prescience Is Predictable -
A faction of the New York Mafia Commission, pointing out that their own organisation was created when former enemies made peace, suggest offering Bolan a deal in which he would now work for them.
Source: The Farmer and the Viper -
After a huge domestic squabble between the protagonist Jim McCarthy and his Colonel Badass girlfriend, she starts to suggest this trope, only for Jim to cut her off, pointing out that whatever their relationship is, they can never "just be friends".
Source: Let's Just Be Friends
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