Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart of the Christian doctrine of the natural sinfulness of man-though Rector Ribble phrased it in casual, man-in-the-street language. Doing their best to interpret the theological issue in the poll's terms, 245 parishioners declared that people "by nature" are "good" or "more apt to be good than bad"; only 21 could bring themselves to say that people are by nature "bad." But 272 were firmly orthodox in declaring their belief in a personal rather than an impersonal God (one came out for no God at all), and 271 accepted the divinity of Christ. (Nineteen...
...terribly lonely position for a man to be in, but his audience were not apt to notice it, because they, like Shaw, always had a wonderful time...
Love & Fertilizer. More frequently sage than sniping, Santayana's mind glows like a lamp, and page after page of Dominations glitters with apt observations caught in its radiant beams...
...begins the first two volumes of a projected eight-volume set of Theodore Roosevelt's own lengthy letters. Before long, the reader is apt to wonder if the ebullient T.R. was not born with a pen grasped firmly in hand. Certainly, few men in or out of public life have slapped down so many words on so many subjects. Upwards of 1,900 letters and telegrams are contained in these first two volumes alone, but by a conservative estimate they are only about 1 % of the number he wrote in his lifetime. And during the period...
Like horseplayers, cockfighters are apt to defend their sport on the ground that they are "improving the breed." Their shoptalk is spiced with argument on the merits of reds, doms, warhorses, and other leading breeds. But the lure of the main time & again is not that academic; it is the vicarious thrill in a bloody contest that gives and asks no quarter...