Sentence examples for apt illustrations from inspiring English sources

Rakove throws in a bonus annotation, of the Declaration of Independence; a dense introductory essay; a 32-page "calendar of events"; lists of the signers of both documents; and a bunch of not always apt illustrations.

A 10-minute panorama on the steps of City Hall on Tuesday provided an apt illustration.

Still, vivid writing, a terrific sense of form, a riveting and important story, apt illustration — that's quite a lot to get into one book, and Sheinkin succeeds.

Sailing was still an apt illustration of the kind of empirically minded problem-solving that Mr. Dennett has long preferred to the abstractions of more traditional philosophy, to the great irritation of some colleagues.

That story is an apt illustration of the paradoxical power of movie make-believe and the twofold imitation it can inspire: you dream of being both the character and the person behind the character.

Mr. Jaynes's thoughts on his life provoked by President Bush's State of the Union address seem to be an apt illustration of the texture of society today.

And last year the state was forced to close the Wildcat Creek Bridge, on Interstate 65, for a month, because of sagging and road movement, which some critics called an apt illustration of Pence's neglect of Indiana's construction needs.

An apt illustration of the sentiment among the civilian political elites was provided by the so-called Memogate scandal, in which a Pakistan ambassador to Washington was accused of eliciting U.S. support to avert a military coup in return for the promise of a number of national security concessions.

A permitted variation is the transposition of one work into the style of another, an apt illustration being "Der Shir Hashirim fun Mendl Pumshtok," a Yiddish version of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" composed in 1937 by Saul Bellow (age twenty-one) and Isaac Rosenfeld (age nineteen): Meg ikh oyfesen a floym?

But at the mention of a few broken bones – Brunt once inadvertently broke an Irish player's arm, as well as her team-mate Lydia Greenway's ribs, an apt illustration of the power she gets behind each ball – she quickly blushes red and hides her face in her hands.

A very apt illustration available in the literature is that of an archer with his quiver full of arrows.