Sentence examples for were as apt from inspiring English sources

Recalling his student compositions of the Thirties he says, 'I found that when I wrote a very sad piece people were as apt to laugh as they were to be moved.

Even many among the poor were as apt as many of those in the middle-class, and the well-to-do, to self-debase themselves for their poverty.

It was as apt, as packed a comment as a correspondent might make from Copenhagen.

The author's public-debt/business-debt parallel is as apt now as it was then.

He was as apt to hang out with the messengers as with the poetry editor.

He's as apt to convince an artist to make a contribution as a rich alum".

Her pronouncement was surely exaggerated, but her admonition is as apt today as it was then.

It would be called a retrospective, though resurrection is as apt.

He's as apt to slug down bourbon as a martini.

Mr. Cuomo's designation of "Arjuna's Dilemma" as a contemporary chamber opera is as apt as any.

Rice-a-Roni would have been as apt a description of the dry, dreary grains.