Word: aptly
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...more and more, as the oldtime nannies dwindle, the mothers of England have, had to take over. In Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, the nannies shudder at the modern English child, dressed, not in flaring coat and velvet collar, but in jeans and sweaters. The harassed mothers are apt to shudder, too, and each day brings more plaintive pleas in the newspapers: "Kindly, reliable nanny wanted." In such cases, the "titled lady" who advertises has the advantage...
...transcendently right and revealing, rather too continuously resembles a Japanese Jiggs who has just been beaned by the eternal rolling pin and is about to say tweet-tweet. But the minor actors are often superb. The camera work, the cutting, the use of flashback and sound track are spectacularly apt and original. And the great strength of the picture is the total seriousness and importance of what Kurosawa has to say: to live is to love; the rest is cancer...
There was no suspicion that Ellen Lewis had tried to conceal her pregnancy, as some unmarried women (and some hysterical wives) are apt to do. Hers was one of the rare cases of genuinely unsuspected pregnancy...
...substances that produce flavor are made by enzymes (organic catalysts) out of tasteless "flavor precursors." When food is preserved by canning, freezing or dehydration, the flavor, along with the enzymes, is apt to be destroyed. The precursors survive. But without the proper enzymes, they do not produce flavor...
...theatergoer and relishes the Angry Young Men. Modern art, on the other hand, baffles her: "Recently I went to an exhibition of sculpture and saw what I thought was a swordfish. But I was told it was a family going out for a walk." Actually, this is a rather apt description of an Ivy Compton-Burnett novel, except that the family would be a shark...