Still, the biography of Gesualdo contains enough evidence of bizarre behavior — not only the slayings themselves but later intimations of dealings with witches and of sadomasochistic relations with young men — that the prevailing picture of him as an uncommonly sinister character seems apt.
In dissent, Justice Gummow recognised that "the focusing of attention on whether detention is 'penal or punitive in character' is apt to mislead", and emphasised the purpose of detention as the fundamental criterion by which non-judicial detention was allowed in previous cases.
(Strings of fewer than 30 characters were apt to turn up meaningless matches -- including common proper names and phrases).
These characters are as apt a part of the scenery as Dan Davis's warm, audience-friendly production design.
In Sam Peckinpah's "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid," he wrote the soundtrack music (including "Knockin' on Heaven's Door") and played a knife-wielding character with an apt Dylan name: Alias.
What makes "Gilmore" distinctive is that viewers from all generations can find something to like, and not only in the characters they're apt to identify with.
Characters are as apt to quote Marx and the New Testament as they are to recite lyrics by Jane's Addiction, whose song "Three Days" is prominently featured.
But the conventions of crime fiction provide structural security for any exploratory attack on the subject of evil (or sin, as Black's characters are more apt to define it), and failing to take full advantage of that freedom is like traveling all the way to Ireland and neglecting to visit either a church or a pub.
A first collection of short stories about characters who are apt to be struggling, under thick layers of stereotype, to make their presence felt in the world as black women, often engaged with that old-time religion and hemmed in by passivity learned in segregated daily life.
An essential premise is that what Book 3 acknowledged as an exception to its critique, the imitation of virtuous and thoughtful characters, is not apt to exist.
