appositeness

I chuckled, struck by the perfect appositeness of the phrase.

Not for the first time that evening he was instantly more frightened than ever by the unintended appositeness of his own words.

Even I can recognise the appositeness of verse occasionally.

The appositeness of it jarred Hayden and frightened him.

The appositeness of this remark is particularly demonstrated by Chaplin & Co.

Dr. Gerard's voice said: "You appreciate the appositeness of the devil's temptation in the New Testament.

It was only the appositeness of the quotation--from the works of the Persian poet Omar Khayy@am--that led me to speak.

The crucial factor of associational appositeness relating a symbol to what it symbolizes is rarely seen directly and explicitly, although heraldry is replete with such purpose-built symbols.

"Why, so they are, Uncle Venner," remarked Phoebe after a pause; for she had been trying to fathom the profundity and appositeness of this concluding apothegm.

True, a Scriptural text did hover on his thin, quivering lips; but as no one paid any heed to him for the moment its appositeness will for ever remain doubtful.

In 1910, a reviewer of a Stratford-upon-Avon production noticed "the peculiar appositeness" of a new version, at a time "when a social upheaval or struggle is taking place between the aristocracy and democracy".

I could not at the moment recall Enoch's appositeness, so I had to ask a simple question, though I felt that by so doing I was lowering myself in the eyes of the lunatic.

She reviews, with economy and appositeness, the "entire complex of loaded references," for American blacks, "around the question of 'naming': slave names, masters' names, African names, call me by my rightful name, nobody knows my name."

His commentaries on the Gospels, Acts, the Pauline epistles and the Minor prophets are founded on those of Chrysostom, but deserve the considerable place they hold in exegetical literature for their appositeness, sobriety, accuracy and judiciousness.

Elgar's piece is as splendidly evocative a picture of Edwardian London as Wagner's is of medieval Nuremberg, and there is nothing to choose between the two in humour, mastery of construction and appositeness of scoring.

At the same time it should be made clear that apart from false assumptions about matriculation, higher education should only have a small contribution to make to the range, standard and appositeness of 16+ and 18+ examination syllabuses and schemes of marking.

I cannot however refrain from giving a passage from Shakespeare, even though it should appear trite; which illustrates the emblematical meaning often conveyed in these floral tributes; and at the same time possesses that magic of language and appositeness of imagery for which he stands pre-eminent.

Among his acts of devotion, he wrote an aesthetic manifesto titled "The Perfect Filmic Appositeness of Maria Montez", referred to her as "The Wonderful One" or "The Marvelous One", and made elaborate homages to her movies in his own films, including the notorious Flaming Creatures.