Sentence examples for apt occasion from inspiring English sources

Wainwright keeps his powder dry for the apt occasion, which then ushers the reader back into the maze – itself a "phantasm of order" – of this most uncommonplace book.

The standard ratio is three parts oil to one part acid, but there's wiggle room; four to one can be too mild, and two to one downright assaultive, so this is an apt occasion for the phrase "to taste".

However, Mr Douthat sensibly points out that, by providing an apt occasion for flipping out about racist voter-suppression, Mr Roberts's decision may well help Democrats at the polls.

The New York artist Sue de Beer has long established herself as an aesthetic interlocutor of teens and the occult, so Halloween provides an apt occasion for her to unveil a new work.

As it happens, my father is a rabbi, but I'd asked him along not for the religious fit — he is, after all, a Reform rabbi, not a Hasid — but because the journey seemed like an apt occasion to get some clarity on his story, and some personal purchase on the topic I was trying to write about.

The reopening of the galleries is an apt occasion to ponder not how we ought to view and think about Oceanic art but how we actually do experience it, which is to say — contrary to ideologically one-sided accounts favored at different points in history — complexly.

But what shows like Deadwood and Supernatural did very well was cement the idea of me (in character) as a fellow who may not look like much on the outside but has a heart of decency and strength underneath, one who is apt on occasion to bark, but who is also dog-like in his loyalty and commitment.

But it's apt, on the occasion of Chris Marker's passing, to consider his own brilliant compilations, such as "A Grin Without a Cat," and to note that its genius depends as much on his spoken ideas as on his trenchant editing.

Even when a congressman came down to Atlanta and addressed a Negro meeting, the occasion was apt to get only a few lines in a column entitled "Our Negro Community," he said.

Given the celebratory occasion, "Little Big Man" seems particularly apt, as she praises the assets of "chubby women" – "you could have been rocking on a big sea," she admonishes the song's subject.

Despite this, he generally manages to have an apt one-liner for every occasion.