Sentence examples for apt to look from inspiring English sources

What is a trial apt to look like?

They were apt to look on their fathers as something of a joke or a threat".

That great engineer shared some wise words based on his own experiences of re-planning London: "Private individuals are apt to look after their own interests first, and to forget the general effect upon the public.

In any case, she is not only apt to look "on the bright side" of life, as her mother notes, but she's also inclined to step back and view events as part of a play that "had begun suddenly, perhaps when she wasn't looking".

And best of all, in a country ruled for the better part of two centuries by the dispensable siblings of the British nobility: "Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons".

A contemporary chronicler, writing in the 1850s, observed that Indians "were rather apt to look on a cricket match as proof of the lunatic propensities of their masters the sahibs, and to wonder what possible enjoyment they could find in running about in the sun all day after a leather ball".

"The edge of the mystery" is how Norman Mailer described John Kennedy in 1960, and it may be an apt way to look at Obama too, as he rides up Pennsylvania Avenue obscured by a pane of bulletproof glass.

As the nation eagerly waits Edinburgh Zoo's announcement of the outcome of the artificial insemination of its female panda Tian Tian, it seems like an apt moment to look back on the life of Ming.

Any sane mind knows the evil twins SOPA and PIPA must be defeated by the sword of righteousness, so it's an apt time to look back at how the web's openness has been a major boon for creativity, and there's no better way to do that than through the lens of music.

One field guide says of this species, "that one is apt to see [it] while down on the ground looking for something else".

While Trump's possible independent candidacy have been compared with that of businessman Ross Perot in 1992, the more apt analogy is to look all the way back to 1856, when former President Millard Fillmore ran as the American Party candidate and captured 22% of the popular vote.