Sentence examples for apposite from the from inspiring English sources

The revelation was surprisingly apposite from the man whose voice was the first to be heard on Radio 1 by 19 million listeners and for whom the greatest audience competition, at the time, came from Radio 4's 8am news bulletin.

These quotes are from a remarkable essay, in the show's catalogue, by the art historian Richard Shiff, who braces a discussion of Marden's self-abnegating sensitivity — "knowing yourself by forgetting about yourself," in the artist's words — with apposite thoughts from the founder of American pragmatism, Charles Sanders Peirce.

God is invoked with duplicitous piety, along with apposite quotes from the Koran, by Richard and his allies, but so is the demonizing language of the West, with Richard's adversaries denounced as terrorists and even members of "an axis of evil".

The phrase "the road to Paris is long" is one of the oldest cliches in the Tour de France lexicon, but it will be especially apposite for the Tour leader Bradley Wiggins from now on.

The quote is so perfectly apposite, the dew from heaven calming the heat and smoke of the mine, the stars piercing the darkness of the pit, with the sense of working men building a glittering paradise.

Nobody in Mr. Bovell's time-skipping saga, sensitively directed by David Cromer ("Our Town"), is ever far from an umbrella, making this Lincoln Center Theater production entirely apposite for the city's long, strange and soggy winter.

The wild conditions seemed highly apposite for the day's other star turn, Hidden Cyclone.

The title is apposite, for the story works its own effects on the side.

He chooses beautiful and apposite quotations from Francis Collins, Albert Einstein and the painter Joan Miro in half a page, and punctiliously includes the references.

Beautifully done: observe the elegant symmetry of treble adjective with treble name-check, the friskiness of "neatnik," the faint but distinct whiff of a more learned age in "droll"....4 — Know your browser.... 5 — Try to be mildly idiosyncratic... 6 — Make apposite puns... — Learn from the master.... Writer mentions Sheridan's comedy "The Critic".

Another is the inclusion of well-chosen if uncomfortably apposite quotations from other writers: among them Cyril Connolly ("The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet") and Lillian Hellman ("People change and forget to tell each other").