Sentence examples for is apt only from inspiring English sources

This metaphor is apt only insofar as both will disappoint liberals hoping for significant change.

Their allegiance is apt only to harden if they feel that their leader, and they by extension, are under attack.

Inescapable comparisons to Steven Spielberg (a producer of "Super 8" and something of a mentor to Mr. Abrams) are apt, but they go only so far.

But the timing is apt — not only because of the swarming headlines but because it follows the release of "The Incest Diary," a memoir published last summer by an anonymous American author.

Their allegiance is apt to only harden if they believe that their leader, and they by extension, are under attack.

(The comparison is apt, if only because Ledger was the last Generation X/Y actor to star in a Batman movie).

The security program is apt to be only as good as the overall pattern and climate of social relations and loyalties of workers and executives of all ranks.

You would do that in the office or at home, locales where, like the car, a caller is apt to assume that only you can hear him.

The nickname is apt, for the Esplanade not only represents the government's hope that Singaporeans will develop their taste for the arts, but that the rest of the world will acquire a taste for Singapore.

Though Coetzee spends less than a quarter of the book in South Africa, a subtitle on the jacket, "Scenes From Provincial Life II," is apt, for his move to England only makes more visible the psychic wounds of the young colonial.

Mr. Wilson refers to this artist, in an accompanying wall panel, as an Abstract Expressionist; while the generational connection is apt, the label suits the painter only if it used in a general rather than a specific sense -- in the way that it might refer to Wassily Kandinsky's paintings of the 'teens, for instance.