How To Use Apposite In A Sentence

All this makes him an apposite starting point for those on the far right in search of intellectual sugarcoating.
Kipling's low opinion of English rugby has rarely seemed more apposite. Times, Sunday Times
If this does come about, the ensuing paralysis will surely be an apposite commentary on the unhappy state of affairs we have reached where no party seems to deserve to govern us.
His observations are, indeed, apposite to the present discussion.
That seems apposite to us today. Times, Sunday Times

In addition, value theory is apposite in the current renewal of interest in the economy across the social sciences.
It comes at an apposite moment. Times, Sunday Times
It seems apposite that the accident occurred in Stoke-on-Trent, centre of the ceramic industry. Times, Sunday Times
What could be more apposite, more relevant to our predicament as a nation, today?
But I dubitate whether this abstruser sort of speculation (though enlivened by some apposite instances from Aristophanes) would sufficiently interest your oppidan readers. The Biglow Papers
I could not at the moment recall Enoch's appositeness; so I had to ask a simple question, though I felt that by so doing I was lowering myself in the eyes of the lunatic: - The Deadlocked City
Throwing him to the lions might have been more apposite.
the successful copywriter is a master of apposite and evocative verbal images
It comes at an apposite moment. Times, Sunday Times
Troth I know not that, * actual celebration, called the Dionysia: this was also the more apposite, as it was now this very comedy Avas in repre - sentation. Comedies. Translated into English, with notes [by Richard Cumberland and others]
A very apposite complement to the OBO I've just read. Sporting dreams that end lying in bed next to Geoffrey Boycott | Emma John |
There are gorgeous backing vocals and the usual apposite soundbites.
I cannot omit to remark here that, however apposite the word tali, which in Malayan signifies a cord, may be to the subject of the marriage tie, there is very strong evidence of the term, as applied to this ceremony, having been adopted from the customs of the Hindu inhabitants of the peninsula of India, in whose language it has a different meaning. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
It is an apposite example, without being the most obvious.
The simple ironic reading is based on the assumption that the high Shakespearian allusions are really inapposite.
Yet in this city of cars, the injection of traffic into the ancient heart seemed not so much outrageous as entirely apposite. Times, Sunday Times
It may be almost 90 years old, but The Great Gatsby is as apposite as ever. In a bit of a flap: Lauren Laverne
Sensory Crossovers" makes the opposite mistake, taking a New Mexicentric viewpoint that privileges Georgia O'Keeffe and her Stieglitzian friends (Arthur Dove, Helen Torr, Charles Demuth, Burchfield), for instance, or the Taos couple Louis Ribak and Beatrice Mandelman over equally apposite practitioners such as Fischinger and Russell. Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Moving Pictures, Frozen Music
Although not what the musicians intended, the dirge provided a wholly apposite soundtrack for a truly lamentable second half performance.
They have talked late into the night, and, appositely, it is now dawn.
It's rather apposite, then, that Kundera's most careful defender is also his former sparring partner on the question of "Czech Destiny".
Its involvement is particularly apposite. Times, Sunday Times
Shakespeare, even though it should appear trite; which illustrates the emblematical meaning often conveyed in these floral tributes; and at the same time possesses that magic of language and appositeness of imagery for which he stands pre-eminent. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
To these ludicrous features was added an intense and seemingly inapposite pride in his native country.
Amber uniqueness , appositeness present to her, she is your uniqueness on behalf of.
There are places where the funniness grates, but they are outnumbered by the quips that make you laugh aloud at their appositeness, not merely to 1793 but to our current condition.
Few writers of criticism are able to combine such a compelling and frankly "superior" prose with correspondingly apposite critical insights as does William Gass. Principles of Literary Criticism
There is some chant, popular among small children, about inflammable trouserings, which seems apposite at this point.
Your questions about poetry are very apposite, although of course the answer is that this is neither fish nor fowl, and the very undecidability is another tension line along which the work progresses. A Bit of an Experiment « Tales from the Reading Room
Question all the buzzwords and you will find that ‘buzz’ is the apposite one - a long low humming which conveys no meaning.
Ms. Emerson made a few brief but apposite remarks about the incident.
His observations are, indeed, apposite to the present discussion.
As the reverend gentleman tripped daintily down the summer street that lay between the blue river and the purple mountain, he cast his mild eyes hither and thither upon human nature, and the sentence he had just penned recurred to him with pleasurable appositeness. For the term of his natural life
Kipling's low opinion of English rugby has rarely seemed more apposite. Times, Sunday Times
And it was entirely apposite. Times, Sunday Times
And it was entirely apposite. Times, Sunday Times
But the chief peculiarity of his speech was its directness and appositeness. War and Peace
This is a very apposite comparison.
That seems apposite to us today. Times, Sunday Times
The singer has an even, rounded tone, an apposite feeling for ornament and an ability to phrase with sprightly elegance.
Its involvement is particularly apposite. Times, Sunday Times
You said that she probably gives him a wigging now and then: that is particularly apposite when one considers her courtroom persona, from both sides of the bench.
The media and author are always defendants, while the apposite part are plaintiff.
A special appositeness was given to these reflections by the discovery, in a neighbouring pew, of the serious profile and neatly-trimmed beard of Mr. Percy Gryce. The House of Mirth
Which seemed an apposite way of summing up Spain's lack of penetration. Times, Sunday Times
It is a task — a travail, from which French linguistic origins the word travel is most appositely derived — to which few can possibly look forward. Planes, Trains And Miseries
I like words and although I have no idea where it came from, ‘blue funk’ seems an apposite description of not only how I have felt but also how I have been.
The media and author are always defendants, while the apposite part are plaintiff.
It seems apposite that the accident occurred in Stoke-on-Trent, centre of the ceramic industry. Times, Sunday Times
The film starts in a graveyard, an apposite image for the decaying society which is the theme of the film.
Two years later, the comparison still seems apposite.
It's a good sentiment, and apposite, but only when you operate close to the true meaning of the word ‘unite.’
Paddy Cunneen's music, screechily inapposite Irish jigs scraped out on one or two instruments, is as unhelpful as the by-now-clichéd Edwardian costuming.
Indeed, the test, it can be argued, is inapposite in many cases.
The observations of Lord Denning are, indeed, apposite to the present discussion.
I found his speech wholly apposite to the current debate.
By G. Adams this space has been appositely called archetypal space, or ur-space. Man or Matter
The breeding female and male will differ appositely in some traits, female legs require a more slender appearance than the strong bone required for a bull calf.
That seems apposite to us today. Times, Sunday Times
Yet, in the event, the positions seemed ludicrously inapposite. Times, Sunday Times
I first encountered Rossini, for instance, in Chuck Jones's "Rabbit of Seville," which made brilliantly apposite use of the "Barber of Seville" overture as background music for one of the looniest of all Looney Tunes cartoons. Why 'Fantasia' Mattered—Just Ask Gunther Schuller
Adequate on-line and off-line information is essential for apposite decision-making.
In forwarding this despatch Lord Milner made the apposite comment that the propriety of employing the term suzerainty to express the rights possessed by Great Britain is an "etymological question," and Mr. Chamberlain, replying on December 15th, accepts President Krüger's declaration that he is willing to abide by the articles of the Convention, reasserts the claim of suzerainty, declines to allow foreign arbitration, and demands the immediate fulfilment of Article IV. Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902
But while allowing that his book is superior in almost every way to your average music journalism, I wonder whether in choosing such an inapposite subject Ricks is not throwing into question the value of academic scrutiny.
It is quite apparent that this is not an apposite circumstance in which mandatory relief ought to be granted.
That you may understand how dangerous, and into what a situation it has already brought you, we will (if you please) go hand-inhand through the different phrases of your letter, and candidly examine each from the point of view of its truth, its appositeness, and its charity. Lay Morals
Which seemed an apposite way of summing up Spain's lack of penetration. Times, Sunday Times
My error was to think "cacography" might have been linked with cack-handedness, an apposite connection for some of us. Ephems of BLB
When would be the apposite time to slap the Captain and take control? Islam? Yes. Gay? Yes. British? No, Oh, OK then. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
It's not a book I've read, so I can't comment on the appositeness or otherwise of the result.
The line feels apposite because Warpaint make music to submerge yourself in, limpid on the surface, eddying beneath. Warpaint: The Fool - review
Hunt down the most apposite or amenable folks and spread the inbox love to spare the pain! Community management under the bonnet: 23 things « Innovation Cloud
I found it too troublesome to turn to the collection of the British Poets to discover apposite mottoes, and, in the situation of the theatrical mechanist, who, when the white paper which represented his shower of snow was exhausted, continued the storm by snowing brown, I drew on my memory as long as I could, and when that failed, eked it out with invention. Chronicles of the Canongate
It both postdates and clarifies Milligan, providing us with the most apposite precedent that we have on the question of whether citizens may be detained in such circumstances. The Volokh Conspiracy » John Yoo’s Appeal
Here he deploys dialogue — which makes up perhaps 80 percent of the novel — brilliantly, to convey action and narrative, mores and social background, and above all, character (Norman Mailer appositely wrote that Higgins may be “the American writer who is closest to Henry Green”). New Fiction
Yet in this city of cars, the injection of traffic into the ancient heart seemed not so much outrageous as entirely apposite. Times, Sunday Times
In few areas of life, I suggest, is this warning more apposite than in relation to writing and publishing.
But I dubitate whether this abstruser sort of speculation (though enlivened by some apposite instances from Aristophanes) would sufficiently interest your oppidan readers. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
The graphics too are both simple and apposite, although some of the attractive backgrounds can occasionally distract from the levels themselves.
The Cylon Raider could superficially be referring to the “contact with extraterrestrials” or, more appositely, to the “guardian angel”. Matthew Yglesias » How Popular is the Tea Party Movement?
The use of the phrase ‘subject to licence’ is not wholly inapposite since it marks the need for the assignee to have a formal licence as part of his documents of title.
There is one apposite text which may be worth a closer look.
Which seemed an apposite way of summing up Spain's lack of penetration. Times, Sunday Times
Refreshed, I said hi to a few filmstars, briefly joining them at their tables with a selection of apposite one-liners.
Yet that broader context itself concerns sex, inasmuch as the word “sex” provides an apposite example of textual opacity — that is, of the reader’s inescapable agency in construing meaning from contextual markers. AKMA’s Random Thoughts
Yet in this city of cars, the injection of traffic into the ancient heart seemed not so much outrageous as entirely apposite. Times, Sunday Times
The ‘Duchess of Doom’ seems like an inapposite moniker for one whose accent is more the English south coast than south Kensington and whose blonde, good looks radiate charm.
And it was entirely apposite. Times, Sunday Times
More appositely, it makes a fine partner to the Bin 65 Chardonnay if you intend to serve a heavily spiced leg of lamb tomorrow.
Its involvement is particularly apposite. Times, Sunday Times
It is, of course, axiomatic that in this field we must be on our guard, when considering liability for damages in nuisance, not to draw inapposite conclusions from cases concerned only with a claim for an injunction.
The cast prances, postures, and palpitates appositely, fully aware that real acting would be de trop.
The comments I earlier made concerning the biography of the subject ladder are equally apposite the present circumstances.
He was an apposite successor to Brinton in a see too modest to attract the interest of ambitious (and usually heavily pluralist) ecclesiastics.
Kipling's low opinion of English rugby has rarely seemed more apposite. Times, Sunday Times
He insisted that the data supplied by the claimants rested ‘on surmise and inapposite extrapolations from animal studies and industrial accidents’.
It couldn't have come at a more apposite moment.
This, and the appositeness of it, quite carried Frona away, and she had both his hands in hers on the instant. CHAPTER 8
It made me wonder what criticism was, or reviewing: perhaps the saying of inapposite things in uninteresting ways.
Giving the subject postapocalyptic trappings promises fresh interest, but it also seems to require some sort of apposite revelation or philosophical conjecture. Into Thin Air
The well-known joke, which has an almost Aesopian ring to it, about the running shoes and the bear is apposite. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
It comes at an apposite moment. Times, Sunday Times
Since the proposals were to be made in secret, and not in full glare of the Arab world, the UN floor would seem a highly inapposite point of discussion.
That's Jorge Grau, director of the cannibal zombie classic The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue... kind of apposite because this was at the annual Festival of Fantastic Films in Manchester, where the two of us helped out with the presentation work for more years than I care to count. The Living Dead at the Manchester Festival
V. ii.823 (467,8) [To flatter up these powers of mine with rest] Dr. Warburton would read _fetter_, but _flatter_ or _sooth_ is, in my opinion, more apposite to the king's purpose than _fetter_. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
His observations are, indeed, apposite to the present discussion.
So it feels pleasingly apposite that here she is taking on the future. Times, Sunday Times
It seems apposite that the accident occurred in Stoke-on-Trent, centre of the ceramic industry. Times, Sunday Times
So it feels pleasingly apposite that here she is taking on the future. Times, Sunday Times
And the clerk said, “Thy words are apposite and thy rede is right.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Line after line, image after image, dazzles with its appositeness and brilliance.
The title is apposite: Kravitz straddles the divide like no other with his drop-dead girlfriends and pads. Evening Standard - Home
Grief grinned to himself at the appositeness of it as Lead, THE DEVILS OF FUATINO
Popularly mooted ‘Governance Reform’ in the South Asian subcontinent should appositely commence from the leadership ranks.
Another example of the apposite quotation comes from our Dutch observer of nineteenth-century Mecca.
The adage that familiarity breeds contempt may be all too apposite. Times, Sunday Times
Refreshed, I said hi to a few filmstars, briefly joining them at their tables with a selection of apposite one-liners.
Recent events have made his central theme even more apposite.
His readings of the apposite quotations with which he argued his case were beautifully paced, theatrically rendered and always designed to move the listener as a true orator can.
What Winston Churchill once wrote about a certain German admiral seems apposite here: "He was like a cut flower in a vase; fair to see, yet bound to die, and to die very soon if the water was not constantly renewed. China and the Next American Century
Such considerations are particularly apposite in relation to Glastonbury.
Also, that Woody Allen story that Antid linked is kind of apposite, and funny. jhupp Says: Matthew Yglesias » Escort-Blogging
The nuances of phrasing are part and parcel of the human subtleties they would convey, such that no other kind of conveyance would seem as satisfying or apposite.
It is not, I own, easy to conceive a more apposite translation of the Greek phantasia than the Latin imaginatio; but it is equally true that in all societies there exists an instinct of growth, a certain collective, unconscious good sense working progressively to desynonymize [22] those words originally of the same meaning, which the conflux of dialects supplied to the more homogeneous languages, as the Greek and German: and which the same cause, joined with accidents of translation from original works of different countries, occasion in mixed languages like our own. Biographia Literaria
On the flyleaf was a Greek elegiac couplet in which Dover had managed (1) to use in an apposite and humorous way a Greek word whose meaning we had discussed in a co-authored article, disputing its translation with John Finnis; (2) to express pleasure at the collaboration; and (3) to compare the "daring" outspokenness of our article to that of his own memoir-all with not only impeccable meter and style, but also graciousness, wit, and elegance. The New Republic - All Feed
Recent events have made his central theme even more apposite.
I found his speech wholly apposite to the current debate.
Illustrations, 'i.p. 215) both adduce quotations [as to' carves '], but they have missed the most apposite, _pointed out by Dr. Rimbault_ in his edition of Sir Thomas Overbury's Works, 8vo., 1856, p. 50. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859
There may have been an apposite cover-photo, I may have read the volume, but can now recall only the title's phrase.
The appositeness, the sheer attention to detail, of every facial expression, every frame, is consumate, and eminently readable.
Her remarks are extremely apposite to the present discussion.
So it feels pleasingly apposite that here she is taking on the future. Times, Sunday Times
The sketches take the reader into our lurid political past, the author tossing out the appositely tongue-in-cheek quote, the well-informed political parallel abroad.
It consists in a number of key words selected for their central appositeness but expanded in use to embrace large spheres of meaning.
The pair of movements might be thought of as urban and agrarian respectively, the scherzo being comic and a bit grotesque, apposite to city-slickers and clowns, with march rhythms and oompah basses redolent of music-hall.
Refreshed, I said hi to a few filmstars, briefly joining them at their tables with a selection of apposite one-liners.
There are plenty of apposite biblical quotations, and a series of questions by way of recapitulation and meditation at the end of each chapter.

How To Use Apposite In A Sentence

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