How To Use Aptness In A Sentence
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the aptness of iron to rust
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the phrase had considerable aptness
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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)
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A final problem concerns the aptness, or non-accidentality, concept.
Reliabilism
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Ben Franklin gave his own surmise as to the aptness of the rattler as a symbol.
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It is not without a certain aptness, then, that the Southerner's chosen drink is called moonshine.
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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)
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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
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But quality as a poem and aptness for a huge public event are two different things.
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greater inaptness of expression would be hard to imagine
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The chorus of thirteen (four sopranos, and three countertenors, tenors, and basses each) scores points again and again with the dramatic aptness of their singing.
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Bosambo returned the messenger, with presents more valueless, and an assurance of friendship more sonorous, more complete in rhetoric and aptness of hyperbole, and when the messenger had gone Bosambo showed his appreciation of N'gori's love by doubling the guard about the Ochori city and sending a strong picket under his chief headman to hold the river bend.
Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country
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The aptness of exile as a description of the modern condition affirms our movement away from or out of the sacred landscape, even if only through nature's erasure or desecration.
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We recall the aptness of Prof. Agassiz's remark: _ "There is even a certain antagonism between instinct and intelligence, so that instinct loses its force and peculiar characteristics, whenever intelligence becomes developed.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
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He writes of "her desire to be taught and instructed in the knowledge of God; her capableness of understanding; her aptnesse and willingnesse to recieve anie good impression, and also the spiritual, besides her owne incitements stirring me up hereunto.
Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings
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The professor was favorably impressed by the aptness to learn on the part of his students.
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I didn't need to extend myself very far to see the aptness of the simile - the frill could be the white chuti that frames the Kathakali dancer's face and the changing colours akin to the dancer's colours.
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This natural aptness, which is fortified by living together, was in Lionello sharpened and refined by his ever wakeful malevolence.
Jean-Christophe Journey's End
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Results indicate that aptness of metaphor and expression style both affect Aad and persuasiveness significantly.
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Greater inaptness of expression would be hard to imagine.
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For if they fell upon one kind of strictness, unless their care were equal to regulate all other things of like aptness to corrupt the mind, that single endeavour they knew would be but a fond labour; to shut and fortify one gate against corruption, and be necessitated to leave others round about wide open.
Areopagitica
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Moreover, as his case shows, the longer a pontificate lasts, the greater the likelihood that a name chosen in good faith will outlive its aptness.
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Turning this quote on its head, one can confidently say that readers have proved this paradise allegory's aptness over and over again.
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When we read the praises bestowed by Lord Penzance and the other illustrious experts upon the legal condition and legal aptnesses, brilliances, profundities and felicities so prodigally displayed in the Plays, and try to fit them to the historyless Stratford stage-manager, they sound wild, strange, incredible, ludicrous; but when we put them in the mouth of Bacon they do not sound strange, they seem in their natural and rightful place, they seem at home there.
Is Shakespeare Dead?
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One pleasure in the rereading of Marx is to savor the trenchancy and aptness of his literary allusions.
The Revenge of Karl Marx
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Individually-determined rationality is geniality, — aptness for an absolutely individual cognizing, so that the same can absolutely be accomplished by no other person-the artistic virtue proper; to it belong courage, composedness, modesty, grace, sympathy, confidence, etc.
Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics.
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Cunning eyes, wily grins, pesky faces had beamed tenacity and aptness and survival.