Sentence examples for the appositeness from inspiring English sources

One can argue with the appositeness of this extended metaphor.

He insists on retyping a page of copy if one word has been crossed out, and he has spent up to three days worrying about the appositeness of a single adjective.

With all the appositeness of allegory, the copies of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" sold by black venders in New York — who are supplied with them by Lushena Books, a black-nationalist book wholesaler — were published by the white supremacist Angriff Press, in Hollywood.

The conflict of opinion as to the decisive effect of certain prior decisions of the court exacts that the principles which this case involves should be first definitely brought into view in order that the appositeness of the cases referred to may be determined in the light of the true doctrine by which the case should be controlled.

With all the appositeness of allegory, the copies of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" sold by black venders in New York who are supplied with them by Lushena Books, a black-nationalist book wholesaler were published by the white supremacist Angriff Press, in Hollywood.

The moral work associated with claims to non-serious intent include pre-empting or blocking the taking of offence in response to the tease, acknowledging a possible impropriety, sanctioning a recipient for taking things too seriously, and disputing the appositeness of the claim to non-serious intent itself.

"Forward," he replied curtly, and when the roar of laughter has died down he says nothing, absolutely nothing, for ten seconds, and then allows a second wave of laughter to rise and fall before he shakes his head in appreciation at the smart appositeness of his own reply, and whoops: "Ooooh".

The project's keystone, meanwhile, is Dafoe's reading of the poem 'The Raven' itself, into which Reed injects lyrics about cocaine, needles and pricks with surprising appositeness: the words of the dark bard of our times dovetailing well into those of the chronicler of the wild sides of nineteenth-century men.

Indeed, she inspired many of the works contained in the ICA's recent landmark season, Jack Smith: A Feast for Open Eyes, and even acted as a posthumous beard for his avant-garde manifesto, The Perfect Filmic Appositeness of Maria Montez, which appeared in the Winter 1962 edition of Film Culture and laid out Smith's vision for a new Queer cinema.

I cannot see their appositeness to the issue here involved.

Such findings are consistent with earlier work on the effects of semantic appositeness (Lowrey et al., 2003); they add to this literature evidence that even semantic or perceptual information, such as an object's size, can be activated by the phonetic properties of elements comprising nonwords.