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But Mr. Kirn has reduced that pain to overly apt poetic justice: a narrative device that turns him aphasic and makes the education process run in reverse.
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Both men championed substances used as "optical whiteners", a flourish even Ralph Ellison might have found overly literal, if apt.
Injured parties to other's abuses both real and or overly interpreted are apt to be "smartphoned" and go viral.
If you're doing 10-minute workouts, you're not apt to get overly sweaty and can likely reuse your gear, but bring along some portable laundry detergent in case you do want to wash your clothes in the bathroom sink.
This might sound overly aggressive, yet it is an apt metaphor.
The choreography is not overly complex but it is always apt.
Baby dragons can be very fragile and more apt to become ill or overly stressed.
Instead we get the kind of wishy-washy design solution that is apt to please no one: a mild, overly polite renovation that obliterates the old while offering us nothing breathtakingly new.
The report doesn't use the term "addiction," but the similarity between uncontrolled dependence on an addictive substance and academe's dependence on underpaid and overly numerous graduate students and postdocs makes the word apt in this context.
Subcutaneous release of the adductor was done to reduce overly high adductor tension, which can limit the hip reduction and is apt to result in postoperative hip dislocation.
There is never a sense that we are being overly manipulated – the choice of those characters whose inner thoughts he shares with us seems entirely apt – we never feel we are being narratively duped.
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