Hearing the speech in the New York production, it struck me as a perfect theatre title: apposite to the play – which concerns a family reunion in Palm Springs – but also alluring and memorable.
The book's apposite title is a play upon its epigraph, "Everything that can be invented has been invented" — an 1899 statement attributed to a U.S. patent commissioner (which, if not apocryphal, might rival "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended" as the Least Accurate Remark Ever Uttered by a Senior Government Official).
Alexis Soloski, the Guardian It will be many years before we see a jukebox musical as unapologetically weird as Lazarus, an almost incomprehensible and oddly intriguing new play At moments apposite or otherwise, the band strike up a Bowie song, familiar, obscure or brand new.
Two hundred years ago it was owned by Frank Austen, whose novelist sister certainly visited here many times – a rather apposite connection given the role played by both Janes in recording the society of their times.
Next time somebody asks you to describe your feelings, maybe playing them the most apposite clip of an Ambrose Akinmusire trumpet solo might cut to the chase if you're struggling for words.
People thought it somehow fitted with the mood of the 80s, but if anything that sort of resigned acceptance of things has got worse and it is rather sad that the play appears to be even more apposite now than it was then".
The wild conditions seemed highly apposite for the day's other star turn, Hidden Cyclone.
A strong entry into the ever more sophisticated market for novelty cards is likely to be a range of "musical" cards, which will play anything from the Status Quo anthem Whatever You Want - deemed apposite for Father's Day - to Manchester United supporters' chants.
Even in golf, a sport whose pace lends itself to lyrical, thoughtful commentary, sometimes an instant reaction is required, and when a brilliant shot is played then the heat is on to come up with something apposite.
As a coda to a distinguished career, it's more apposite than the overheated Snow White and the Huntsman; the blind dwarf Hoskins played in the latter became his final role.
