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On themes hardly apt for great art, both works exalt their mediums by sabotaging normal orders of response.

That compares with a £4.30m debut for Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie back in June, although the comparison is hardly apt.

American officials also openly mocked China and Russia as states that repress free speech and transparency and therefore are hardly apt refuges for someone fighting government secrecy in the United States.

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Gyllenhaal's last lead role was in boxing drama Southpaw, which is hardly an apt comparison.

His successor will present a fresh start in promoting a reformist agenda of fixing the pension and health systems, providing jobs and making government and bureaucracy more accountable".Fresh", however, is hardly the apt term for the two contenders for the leadership, to be decided on May 16th.

Ferrell's last leading role was Anchorman 2, but that sequel to his best-loved film is hardly an apt comparison for Get Hard, and nor is 2012's The Campaign, a satirical comedy about US politics co-starring Zach Galifianakis, which struggled to connect in foreign markets.

That hardly seems an apt description of the pinstriped publishers of American newspapers or of the no-nonsense executives of newsprint manufacturers.

The first, Steve Jobs, a drama directed by Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin (whose pedigree on The West Wing, and the Zuckerberg biopic The Social Network could hardly be more apt) is loosely based on the first half of Isaacson's book, up to 1998 and the launch of the iMac, and has Michael Fassbender as its flawed tragic hero.

Fifa.com – on what makes a five-star Mauritius resort the right choice for this month's annual Fifa congress: "The Indian Ocean island location could hardly be more apt, as the representatives of Fifa's 209 associations meet to discuss President Joseph S. Blatter's 2011 congress pledge to 'steer the Fifa boat back into clear, transparent waters'".

There could hardly be a more apt theme for a novel of manners than the struggle of a prominent and respectable lady to disguise her inflamed feelings in order to meet the conventions of society.

It is hardly clear whether voters are apt to punish Mr. McGreevey as environmentalists or campaign-finance advocates have done.

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