"The Three Weissmanns of Westport" is a dense fruitcake of apposite references: I spotted Louisa May Alcott (Annie "is too fond of books.
Reviewing the Whitney show in the Times, Michael Kimmelman made apposite references to Mantegna, Pontormo, Hans Baldung, van Eyck, Dürer, Annibale Carracci, Houdon, Goya, Otto Dix, Christian Schad, Francis Picabia, Norman Rockwell, Balthus, Lucian Freud, Paul Cadmus, van Meegeren (the forger of Vermeers), Gerhard Richter, and Jeff Koons.
In 1990 he spoke of how Christ's admiring references to the once-despised Samaritans had transformed relations between Samaritans and Jews, "making the two divided peoples into one 'new creation' in Christ" – a dramatically apposite quotation in an address to Protestants setting out his vision for the future of Ireland.
He expertly traces connections and literary influences and summons the occasional apposite quotation.
The X Factor reference is apposite.
Although, of course, "good" is hardly an apposite word to use with reference to Junky.
Lezard's reference to Caliban is still apposite.
Mention of the motor industry is apposite.
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.
We may mention in our article any we find particularly witty or apposite.
