Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case with the presentation portrait,* Sutherland's preparatory sketches were apt to please the critics who think painting should be true-to-art (by fulfilling certain "laws" for what makes a good picture) and displease the majority who feel that painting should be true-to-life (in the sense of showing what everyone can see for himself...
...often removes its significance, too. In "modern mortuary method," the funeral sermon is frequently nothing more than God's commercial, grooved in, as the authors explain, to "expedite the mourning process," and grief is classified as a "problem of bereavement." Instead of eternal life, the customer is more apt to be promised that in his final resting place he will receive, upon payment into a small sinking fund, "perpetual care...
...cutbacks in food and housing subsidies, public works and other aspects of the Labor-fostered welfare state. Butler called it a program to "expand success and curb excess." "I did not know the horse would be so excitable when it saw the oats of freedom," said Rab Butler, less apt at figures of speech than figures of finance. "We need to prune back our roses to get better blooms...
...down 20 ft. in a Navy diving suit and sailed up the Mississippi in a barge before 75,000 spectators at the opening of the Memphis Cotton Carnival. His identification with his sponsor is so strong that any Lincoln or Mercury buyer who is dissatisfied with his car is apt to drop Ed a complaining line. (Within ten days after such a complaint, the local district manager is on the phone or the car owner's doorstep, solicitously asking what he can do to help...
Discussing the psychology of the French nation yesterday. Professor Andre Siegtried admitted in a letter to the "New York Times" that his country is all too apt an example of "inefficient political behavior...