To set William Tell's war in – apparently – Bosnia 20 years ago was searingly apposite, very powerful, and aptly conveyed by a musically electrifying performance, at once epic and bleak.
In an attempt to lighten the mood, I pointed out to Omar how apposite it was that at the very moment in which votes were being cast in the south, possibly redrawing the region's borders for ever, we had been placed under lock and key in a military intelligence unit almost a thousand miles to the north for attempting to do the same.
He and Philby were pupils together at Westminster, where Milne's first and peculiarly apposite memory of his friend is of "a very small boy happily trying to squash a bigger boy behind a cupboard door".
Hammersmith Apollo, Thursday This Is Grime With Stormzy, Kano and the star of this very issue, Skepta, inarguably breaking through to the mainstream, it seems an apposite juncture for the tale of grime to be told in handsome book form.
Barron's main agenda is the music from his album Book of Intuition, but he and his trio partners Kiyoshi Kitagawa (bass) and Johnathan Blake (drums) gave their show a piquancy typical of live jazz, particularly in the finesse of their dynamics, and the dramatic yet apposite impact of Blake's excursions into a contemporary rhythmic world very different from Barron's.
However, Geremek, who liked tweed clothes, smoked a pipe and had a very "academic" beard, could be disarmingly informal and even scurrilously light-hearted as well as deeply apposite and ponderous in his responses.
It is an intriguing remark and an apposite one, it turns out - a point that can be appreciated by looking at the very set-up of the mission.
The death of Diana is an apposite example: at the time, when the person divining the hand of MI6 was Mohamed Al Fayed, his very involvement made the notion ludicrous.
