Sentence examples for aper from inspiring English sources
noun
Someone who apes something
Here, too, an objection has been raised: namely that art is not wholly indifferent to historical criteria, because it obeys the laws of "verisimilitude"; but, here again, "verisimilitude" is only a rather clumsy metaphor for the mutual coherence of images, which without this internal coherence would fail to produce their effect as images, like Horace's delphinus in silvis and aper in fluctibus.
Ms. Hopkins is not exactly opening new territory with such aper?, which are sometimes delivered by a newsreel-style voice-over.
That barbed description of the artistic process is one of many pungent aper? offered by the composer and author Ned Rorem in James Dowell and John Kolomvakis's seldom-seen 2005 documentary of his life and times, "NED ROREM: WORD AND MUSIC".
In 284, during that campaign, Numerian, Carinus's brother and coemperor, was found dead in his litter, and his adoptive father, the praetorian prefect Aper, was accused of having killed him in order to seize power.
Aper's guilt was accepted by contemporaries, but it was also true that a prediction had been made to Diocletian previously, telling him that he would become emperor on the day he killed a boar (Latin: aper).
The work refers back to his youth, introducing his teachers Aper and Secundus.
He designated Aper as the criminal and killed him personally.
His book "is studded with bright aper-->us, sharp critique and copious evidence of refreshingly honest taste formation," David Cohen wrote in these pages in 1999.
"This charming aper-->u-filled memoir is... a personal myth about undoing family myths," Jonathan Lear wrote here in 1999".
The link between breaking up and getting fired produces his finest aper-->us: "Federal legislation should be drafted that requires the jilter to offer the jilted extended romantic benefits".
