Sentence examples for apt passage from inspiring English sources
to get the exact wording, and while doing so found another, even more apt passage in which Faulkner writes, "The poets are wrong of course".
In an amusingly provocative and strangely apt passage, he spends some time comparing Islamic State with the Church of Jedi – two religious or pseudo-religious groups that employ myth as a style or lifestyle gesture.
It was an odd but apt rite of passage for a jacket that had been the nocturnal uniform of a sexual adventurer, impregnated with smoke, filth and assorted body fluids - a symbol of the social ascent that was so desperately important to Mapplethorpe.
I'd love to prove that with an apt, foul-mouthed passage, but my mother will be reading this review.
And with both of them those passages are apt to be among the most bracing stuff in their books.
Students did not mark up papers as much as we discussed them in class and were much less apt to point to specific passages in their peers' writings.
There are electrifying passages followed by pensive sections – apt to soundtrack scenes of Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe) wandering around fields and fondling the barley.
Instead he poses questions, cites passages from the classics, or uses apt analogies, and waits for his students to arrive at the right answers.
[Added in 2003:] I thank John Corcoran for his very apt critical comments, which prompted changes in several passages of the 1999 text.
Where Mr. Zender resorts to literal sound painting, it's often vivid and apt, like the combination of harp, marimba and strings tapped with the wooden part of the bow, in a passage about frozen tears.
