Sentence examples for as apt in from inspiring English sources

MELISSA TREVVETT Brookline, Mass., Sept. 7, 2012 To the Editor: David Brooks's summation that "the next president has to do three big things, which are in tension with one another: increase growth, reduce debt and increase social equity" would have been as apt in 1932 as it is in 2012.

Though history becomes alive for Bowden, he perceives it through the perpetrators (namely Dussander) and not through the victims, characterizing Bowden as "apt" in the sense of "a natural tendency to... undesirable behavior".

Few labels boast a logo quite as apt as that of In the Red Records: a VU meter with its needle stuck on overload.

Martial Raysse, one of the major artists of the second half of the 20th century, is the only French nouveau réaliste for whom the term "pop" is as apt as it is for Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein in the US, Sigmar Polke in Germany and David Hockney in Britain.

Even many among the poor were as apt as many of those in the middle-class, and the well-to-do, to self-debase themselves for their poverty.

Since the world of "The Passage" is as zealously detailed as that of a video game (and as apt to move in linear fashion from one realm to another), Mr. Cronin even provides a brief constitution for the little group of still-human survivors.

Then again, he is just as apt to say, in the course of a discussion of first-person narration, "I had not quit in combat, and once when a gang broke up a party in my loft, I had taken two cracks on the head with a hammer and had still been able to fight".

He's informal in attire — I don't think I've ever seen him in a tie, and he is as apt to do rounds in his zip-up anorak as in his white coat — but he exudes competence.

Mr. Milbank was as apt to get involved in state politics as he was to weigh in on national questions.

The Italians by Luigi Barzini Still in print 50 years after publication, outdated in parts, yet full of insights into the Italian psyche, which are as apt today as they were in 1964: "Dull and insignificant moments in life must be made decorous and agreeable with suitable decorations and rituals.

A century later, Arthur Miller defended "Death of a Salesman" with an essay in the Times, arguing that "the common man is as apt a subject for tragedy in its highest sense as kings were" for Shakespeare.