Sentence example with the word 'appositeness'

appositeness

Definition n. appropriateness for the occasion

Last update: June 26, 2015


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It is difficult to allow the appositeness of this special illustration; on the other hand, Ford has even in this case shown his art of depicting sensual passion without grossness of expression; for the exception in Annabella's language to Soranzo seems to have a special intention, and is true to the pressure of the situation and the revulsion produced by it in a naturally weak and yielding mind.   [Please select]

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But the chief peculiarity of his speech was its directness and appositeness.   [Please select]

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We have a wholly different ideal, which in order to interest us powerfully painting must illustrate--an ideal of more pertinence and appositeness to our own moods and manner of thought and feeling.   [Please select]

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There had been, in fact, no intermarriage among its members beyond what was natural in a small and isolated community, but the phrase had a certain appositeness.   [Please select]

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