When Susan Galloway, a Jewish resident of the town, complains that "people don't realize how hard it is to be a minority faith", she has no more claim to legal protection than does a Romney supporter whose candidate lost in the 2012 election or a Marxist objecting to state capitalism.If these comparisons sound inapposite, that's because they are.
As the country pauses to mourn the dead in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, now may seem more than usually inapposite.
His rhymes are jarringly off or disconcertingly exact, and his ragged stanzas vary from lines of one word to lines that meander the length of a paragraph, often interrupted by inapposite digressions.
There are not a lot of signposts here; backdrops shift and multiply without much warning, and parts of the music — in harmony as well as mixing — sound inapposite, out of scale with one another.
Each time I walked into the restaurant -- now 90 percent complete -- the clever names didn't quite fit, the esoteric and the exciting names felt forced, inapposite.
Some scholars cautioned against reading too much into very limited information culled from an inapposite decision.
The word "fun" might sound inapposite for a story containing passages of great cruelty and grief, but the national revival of the plays has as much to say about community as it does religion.
The suggestion that making concessions to Gandhi was like "feeding cat's meat to a tiger" was, the author comments, particularly inapposite, given that the Mahatma was a "devout veggie".
A disagreeable thought, but not an inapposite one in 2017.
Developing-country analogies seem to me even more inapposite, although this may just be my latent jingoism talking.
But for the Carnegie band to play "A Latin Jazz Celebration," as Thursday's program was called, still seemed a little inapposite because of the way it moves rhythmically.
