She can pull an apposite quotation not only from her heroes, such as Adam Smith and Thomas Aquinas, but also from Thucydides and Machiavelli, or from the anthropologist Ruth Benedict and the contemporary philosopher Alistair MacIntyre, or (for that matter) from the movies 'Groundhog Day' and 'Shane.' What is more, she writes with wonderful ease.
At moments apposite or otherwise, the band strike up a Bowie song, familiar, obscure or brand new.
Here we have generally chosen apposite or symbolic colours to represent the appropriate interaction; for example red for inhibition, green for activation.
"Since it was written," Lloyd says, "Urinetown has only become more apposite – not only because it touches on environmental and economic catastrophe, but because at the heart of it is a revolution.
The Jewish sage Hillel had an equally apposite quote: "If not now, when?" *This post has been updated to reflect the Wall Street Journal's report on the disbanding of the Strategic and Policy Forum.
Given these layers of complexity, of real life mixed with fiction, the catchline that the HBO TV channel is using for the Seinfeld episodes is apposite: "It's not a reunion show, but it's the closest you'll get".
There is no solution to this conundrum other than self- and other-awareness and apposite self-restraint, not of ideas but of rhetoric.
Comparing substance use disorders to other chronic illnesses like diabetes and asthma is apposite, but doesn't tell the whole story.
Shakespeare's Lear, reproving his skinflint daughters, provides an apposite response: O reason not the need!
