Many of the Bushisms strike me as unfair and inapt, which is why I comment onthem. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Yesterday’s Bushism of the Day:] Reference
"That is not an inapt comparison, sir," said Beeker. From Wordnik.com. [Phule me twice]
The comparison to daily tracking polls is also inapt. From Wordnik.com. [An Honest Leftist] Reference
And -- and to shift the focus to Dave is really inapt. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2009] Reference
So much Alaric had learnt, and had been no inapt scholar. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Clerks] Reference
The singularly inapt paraphrase of the couplet in stanza 3. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody] Reference
Her defense was weak and inapt but she attained her object. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
The school-master is not responsible for the apt and the inapt pupil. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume I. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
The simile is not inapt, as applied to the first efforts of the early. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
Sorry, John, your criticism is inapt, as is your alternative analogy. From Wordnik.com. [Sen. Nelson (D-FL): Deal Could Be Reached Soon For New Florida Primary] Reference
A curious, and, as we think, not inapt parallel might be drawn between. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
To call the president yesterday a moral ayatollah was, I think, most inapt. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 20, 2006] Reference
The comparison of Iran to the People's Republic is a very inapt comparison. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry] Reference
I am already on record as agreeing that his remarks were unseemly and inapt. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Clinton: Obama Camp Memos Reveal Plan To Play The Race Card On Me] Reference
The comparison of parapsychology with general relativity is singularly inapt. From Wordnik.com. [Parapsychology: An Exchange] Reference
Newport, Rhode Island, is not an inapt example of the class of which I speak. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880] Reference
He immediately said in the hearing to Senator Kennedy, that was an inapt phrase. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2006] Reference
So she's not making the argument you suggest, and even she did, it would be inapt. From Wordnik.com. [On Eve Of Primary, Hillary Drops Negative Mailer Hitting Obama On Taxes] Reference
His historical analysis also flags, and he resorts to block-quoting inapt scholars. From Wordnik.com. [The Best That Has Been Thought and Said] Reference
Here's where I think we've been inept, or inapt, in talking about the war on terror. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2006] Reference
"I acknowledge the justice of the expression," she said, "but somehow it seems quite inapt.". From Wordnik.com. [Explorers Of Gor]
Cascade mountains without clothing enough to hide his nakedness, was not an inapt comparison. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of a Pioneer] Reference
In the post-secular world today's categories of left and right will become inapt and obsolete. From Wordnik.com. [Kicking the Secularist Habit] Reference
And in the case of TNR, which was famously pro-war despite a liberal bent, it seems especially inapt. From Wordnik.com. [Tall Tales?] Reference
In 1987's "Beloved," it was a deceptively lovely plantation with the hellishly inapt name of Sweet Home. From Wordnik.com. [Trouble In 'Paradise'] Reference
Even the most munificent endowment can lose its vitality and purpose through inapt and indifferent management. From Wordnik.com. [John H. van Vleck - Banquet Speech] Reference
“What are you thinking of, Katharine?” he asked suspiciously, noticing her tone of dreaminess and the inapt words. From Wordnik.com. [Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf] Reference
Strangely enough his name (which was tied to his halter) was 'Ora Pro Nobis,' a not inapt cognomen for a padré's horse. From Wordnik.com. [With The Immortal Seventh Division] Reference
If she attempted an answering quotation of her own, he told her how inapt it was or, worse still, corrected her inaccuracy. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
And though the term "pragmatic" may seem inapt, when you consider Prisbrey's hardscrabble life story, it somehow makes sense. From Wordnik.com. [Grandma Prisbrey Built a Village Made of Bottles] Reference
We have already given a general account of that which is apt or inapt to solidify or to melt, but let us return to them again now. From Wordnik.com. [Meteorology] Reference
"Breaking bread," far from being an inapt metaphor for a Passover Seder, is an actual reference to the most famous Seder in history. From Wordnik.com. [Please Passover the Bread] Reference
It's a strange, inapt title not nearly as effective as the assertion contained in the original British edition: '' Orwell's Victory. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Contrarian of note: an Orwell defense in brief chapters] Reference
But the difference is that between points on a continuum, and so the stark contrasts that are implied in the conventional view are inapt. From Wordnik.com. [Theories of Tort Law] Reference
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