The overture to Janáček's bleak, prison-set opera From the House of the Dead brought intensity, especially from the two solo violins at the start, and apt sound effects from a percussion player shaking his chains, but the piece itself seemed to tick the Czech box rather than fit with the rest of the programme.
The name is apt: it sounds like how you feel when you wake up in a strange place and momentarily forget your coordinates.
Dutch, Italian and Albanian writers are increasingly apt to sound alike, Parks suggests.
The only place I got stuck was at the clue "Gaelic dance party," or CEILIDH, but loved the idea of NAGWARE, which is just as apt as it sounds.
They are more apt to stay sound.
"Lily came by her obtuse optimism honestly, and it later served her well," Ms. Moffat writes about Lily Forster, in a deftly understated tone that, to Forster's devoted readers, will sound apt and familiar.
Horses in the raceday-medication-free jurisdictions are more apt to stay sound, to have extended careers, and, yes, to win a Triple Crown or retire undefeated after an extensive career of Classic wins.
He has pet phrases and sayings of the week, some of them hoary locker-room maxims, such as "Play to win, not not to lose," that out of the mouth of a good coach, or a tinny loudspeaker system, can still sound apt.
In the Largo of the "Tempesta di Mare," he drops in an impressionistic whole-tone scale, which somehow sounds perfectly apt.
An Aitch R Aitch might be expected to proffer a limp regal handshake, where Haitch R Haitch sounds more apt for trouble in nightclubs and service in Iraq.
Early-music virtuosos such as the violinist Andrew Manze have taken to adding improvised touches to these spare, nocturnal textures; Manze's entrancing command of Baroque violin technique can be heard on a Harmonia Mundi recording entitled "Concert for the Prince of Poland". In the Largo of the "Tempesta di Mare," he drops in an impressionistic whole-tone scale, which somehow sounds perfectly apt.
