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• s  being of striking appropriateness and pertinence
  the successful copywriter is a master of apposite and evocative verbal images

• This is particularly apposite in the case of China, a country with not only many possible futures, but (as it were) many pasts.
• The current economic downturn (the worst since the Great Depression) stands in apposite to your contention.
• He assaulted the most textured record in the most apposite sport--the sport closest to the American bone and yet most in need of a rehabilitation of the spirit.

• apt
• pertinent

News & Articles

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• When do Americans say, ‘Enough’?
  By Nat Hentoff From back in our history, Ronald Reagan gave a very apposite warning to those of us insistent on protecting our self-governing republic: “Freedom is never ...
  July 6, 2013 - The Mckeesport Daily News

Quotes

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• Conrad Black in guardian.co.uk
  On bail at his beachside mansion in Palm Beach, Black says his faith is providing comfort: "It has been helpful ...... in reading apposite passages from ecclesiastical authors, especially Cardinal Newman, and in conversation with several very...
• Alex Salmond in guardian.co.uk
  If ever the cry 'time for a change' was apposite, it's certainly in this constituency,Salmond said.
• Aaron Copland in NPR
  The letters and speeches of Lincoln supplied the text,Copland said in 1943. "It was comparatively a simple matter to choose a few excerpts that seemed particularly apposite to our own situation today. I avoided the temptation to use only...