No, Cicoria said, they were not hallucinations — "inspiration" was a more apt word.
No, Cicoria said, they were not hallucinations—"inspiration" was a more apt word.
"We have a banana for you!" The Russian word for a protest is miting — meeting — and, for once, this was the more apt word for it.
But a more apt word for the buzz exuded by the stars of the rickety rap melodrama "Turn It Up" might be attitude.
Maybe "mindless" is a more apt word: when my body's cruising and my head goes elsewhere, solving, chuckling to itself, thinking – or actually not.
In the first essay in "The Raw and the Cooked," Jim Harrison uses the term "food bully," and no more apt words could describe both his prose and his way with food.
His renovation, an 11-year effort (ordeal is perhaps the more apt word at this point), began from the unobvious and instantly disputed proposition that a "Piranesian pile," as he called the vivid jumble of remains, could yet be put back together.
If you go on a television discussion programme and then receive a load of tweets comparing your genitalia to a variety of unpleasantly rotting vegetables, it's hard to find a more apt word," said Beard, who has been targeted by internet trolls.
"Despite many pronouncements that 2016 was the year of VR, a more apt word for virtual reality might be absence," The Economist observed caustically last summer, noting that during that year forecasts of combined sales of VR hardware and software dropped from $5.1bn to $3.6bn to the harsh reality of $1.8bn.
If you are going to repeal the Patients Bill of Rights I cannot think of a more apt word to apply what's going to happen to families who are having their benefits [taken away]; what's going to happen to children born with diabetes; and what is going to happen to women who are getting these rescission notices in the middle of their treatment for breast cancer, or men with prostate cancer.
"Men are more apt to use that word about women than women are.
