aptness

How To Use aptness In A Sentence

• the aptness of iron to rust
• the phrase had considerable aptness
• Manning points out that a pattern of cognitive failure, followed by delayed understanding, has a certain aptness here. How to Save 'Tintern Abbey' from New-Critical Pedagogy (in Three Minutes Fifty-Six Seconds)
• A final problem concerns the aptness, or non-accidentality, concept. Reliabilism
• Ben Franklin gave his own surmise as to the aptness of the rattler as a symbol.
• It is not without a certain aptness, then, that the Southerner's chosen drink is called moonshine.
• Thus there was a certain aptness in his first publishers 'commission, which was to travel to the industrial north of England and write a report on the effects of unemployment and poverty on the lives of the working class. Orwell: The Authorized Biography (review)
• Davies punctuates his collage of exquisitely selected archival footage and a few contemporary scenes shot in crisp digital photography with a sound track of extraordinary aptness and variety: Handel, Benny Goodman, Brahms, Salvador Bacarisse, the Spinners, Mahler, Peggy Lee. Intimate History
• But quality as a poem and aptness for a huge public event are two different things. Also | clusterflock
• greater inaptness of expression would be hard to imagine