Neither did the Marxes buy any of the artist's cartoonlike pictures in pseudo-childlike style that he executed in one day, in apparent fits of rage and derision, such as "Dora Maar in an Armchair," dated Oct. 26, 1939.
In some cases, we do observe such gradualistic patterns in the fossil record, but in many others, we observe evolution in apparent fits and starts.
But no matter how good the apparent fit between what foreign companies offer and what host countries need, success is far from assured.
In 2006, before the "open and connected" mantra had fully crystalized, Zuckerberg – in an apparent fit of condescension – implored users to "calm down" and "breathe" when the introduction of the NewsFeed upended established information flows on the site.
Law enforcement officials are trying to prove that Mr. Monserrate purposely smashed Ms. Giraldo in the face with the crushed remnants of a drinking glass in an apparent fit of jealousy, officials said.
Noting the apparent fit of the bulge of eastern South America into the bight of Africa, the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt theorized about 1800 that the lands bordering the Atlantic Ocean had once been joined.
But in 2009, in an apparent fit of pique at the growing power of the merchants, Mr. Kim temporarily shut the black markets and the authorities resumed their crackdown on women wearing pants and riding bicycles.
The apparent fit of the bulge of eastern South America into the bight of Africa, magnetic stripes on the ocean floors, earthquake distribution, paleomagnetic data, and various other observations are now regarded as natural consequences of a single plate-tectonics model.
There is no commentary, no interviews, no eavesdropping, no love interest and no conflict, unless you count the moment when Chak-Hong Fung, one of the documentary's participants, in an apparent fit of pique, drops his dough mixture off the end of the table.
In later editions, Norman toned down some of the writing in an apparent fit of misplaced bashfulness, so seek out an original, forgive him his anti-McCartney bias and luxuriate particularly in its treatment of Liverpool, Hamburg and 3 Savile Row, the West End townhouse where the group's hippy faux-empire Apple rose and then rotted.
He had never been violent until one wintry afternoon last year, when in an apparent fit of jealousy, she said, he went to her Brooklyn apartment unexpectedly, hurled whatever was in sight, and kicked and hit her so severely that her arm was broken.
