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apropos
1. ’ He commented apropos of nothing
2. If this were the Spanish Inquisition, you would have accused THEM of being Jews apropos of nothing but their ginger hair,”
3. “I’ve got a special badge for knot tying,” she said apropos of nothing, but with evident pride
4. Ranking with that warning he also said, apropos of war: „War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse
5. These two commercials were broadcast apropos with the theme of the network programme
6. This radical leftist great sage of the ages told us in the late sixties, apropos the Vietnam War, that the white race was a cancer on the world
7. Examples aboud: The Marshall Plan, Nato, and the Truman Doctrine apropos of Greece in 1947, that any Soviet plan to enslave democracies would be met by military force
8. ‘I am interested, apropos of nothing: what is your opinion on your original self being downloaded into a human?’ He knew, in the circumstances, it seemed an illogically trivial question
9. “You’ve just been blotto, not a highly technical term, but fairly apropos under the circumstances
10. Therefore, it only seemed apropos to break during a slow jam
11. "So Chase, I understand you were released from prison just this morning?" Viktoria said, apropos of nothing
12. “At the instinct level, it is an apropos analogy, but only that
13. He’d searched high and low, deep and wide, and several other clichéd phrases about distances, when, after several hours of lurching, he came across a pair of teenage boys hiding at the end of a dead-end alley (how apropos!) with a single rifle between them
14. But that first song had gotten things going, and although I sat out the next one, I went ahead and danced to “Witchy Woman” with one of the ghostbusters — if he only knew how apropos that song was— and the one after that with Tobias, while Adam gallantly partnered with my aunt
15. Then, apropos of nothing, she said, “I will give you Florida for this one
16. Seemed apropos considering the company
17. “Good thing, too! Apropos, tell me Corina, is it better to have loved and lost than to have never loved?”
18. "Ingrid was very fun to drown,” Randy came out with, apropos of nothing
19. It is quite the contrary, an observation apropos of the style occurred to me that is by no means irrelevant as things stand
20. You spoke of formality just now, apropos of the inquiry, you know
21. Amalia Ivanovna was foreseeing something amiss, and at the same time deeply wounded by Katerina Ivanovna's haughtiness, and to restore the good-humour of the company and raise herself in their esteem she began, apropos of nothing, telling a story about an acquaintance of hers "Karl from the chemist's," who was driving one night in a cab, and that "the cabman wanted him to kill, and Karl very much begged him not to kill, and wept and clasped hands, and frightened and from fear pierced his heart
22. And apropos of the miracle let me tell you that I think you have been asleep for the last two or three days
23. Here is adhesiveness, it is not previously fashion'd, it is apropos; Do you know what it is as you pass to be loved by strangers?
24. old lady coming in made a third, very apropos for the confusion I was in,
25. "But apropos of Debray, how is it that I have not seen him lately at the baron's house?"
26. “He’ll be coming up soon,” Doug said, and hooted again, apropos of nothing
27. Also, without being actually positive, it struck him a great field was to be opened up in the line of opening up new routes to keep pace with the times apropos of the Fishguard-Rosslare route which, it was mooted, was once more on the tapis in the circumlocution departments with the usual quantity of red tape and dillydallying of effete fogeydom and dunderheads generally
28. —Our mutual friend's stories are like himself, Mr Bloom apropos of knives remarked to his confidante sotto voce
29. And apropos of coffin of stones the analogy was not at all bad as it was in fact a stoning to death on the part of seventytwo out of eighty odd constituencies that ratted at the time of the split and chiefly the belauded peasant class, probably the selfsame evicted tenants he had put in their holdings
30. The first time she had touched him, he thought, apropos of nothing
31. Amalia Ivanovna was foreseeing something amiss, and at the same time deeply wounded by Katerina Ivanovna's haughtiness, and to restore the good‐humour of the company and raise herself in their esteem she began, apropos of nothing, telling a story about an acquaintance of hers "Karl from the chemist's," who was driving one night in a cab, and that "the cabman wanted him to kill, and Karl very much begged him not to kill, and wept and clasped hands, and frightened and from fear pierced his heart
32. “Personally, I have high hopes,” William was saying, apropos of … well, what, exactly? “Failure is so much more interesting
33. "Apropos of what you said about wearing harness," Lydgate began, after they had sat down, "I made up my mind some time ago to do with as little of it as possible
34. When I got closer, I heard Gazzy say, apropos of nothing, “We can fly
35. " It was such an odd expression, coming apropos of nothing, that it quite startled me
36. The collegians, decorated on the collar with a golden fleur-de-lys, fought each other apropos of the King of Rome
37. Fortunately, chance ordained that on the morrow of that tragic day, there was some official solemnity apropos of I know not what,—fetes in Paris, a review in the Champ de Mars, jousts on the Seine, theatrical performances in the ChampsElysees, fireworks at the Arc de l'Etoile, illuminations everywhere
38. "Apropos of that quagmire, you're a hearty animal
39. Gillenormand spoke slightingly of the Convention, apropos of a newspaper which had fallen into his hands, and gave vent to a Royalist harangue on Danton, Saint-Juste and Robespierre
40. midst of his bliss, said, apropos of I know not what incident:
41. Fanny had not a word to say against its becomingness, and, excepting what remained of her scruples, was exceedingly pleased with an acquisition so very apropos
42. [Note 16: Apropos of this somewhat ungallant sentiment, a Russian scholiast remarks:—"The whole of this ironical stanza is but a refined eulogy of the excellent qualities of our countrywomen
43. Amalia Ivanovna was foreseeing something amiss, and at the same time deeply wounded by Katerina Ivanovna’s haughtiness, and to restore the good-humour of the company and raise herself in their esteem she began, apropos of nothing, telling a story about an acquaintance of hers ‘Karl from the chemist’s,’ who was driving one 684 of 967
44. Apropos of her birthday Makar Ivanovitch suddenly launched into reminiscences of mother's childhood, and the time when she " coxildn't stand up on her Httle feet
45. ' And just fancy, he had only thirteen thousand left then, so it seems it was very apropos his dying now
46. It's apropos of smell, he said, that the stench one perceives here is, so to speak, moral—he-he! It's the stench of the soul, he says, that in these two or three months it may have time to recover itself
47. “I am a Socialist, Karamazov, I am an incurable Socialist,” he announced suddenly, apropos of nothing
48. ” Apropos of her acquaintance with Fyodor Pavlovitch, she remarked curtly, “That's all nonsense, and was it my fault that he would pester me?” But a minute later she added, “It was all my fault
49. Apropos of his dignity, I may mention that I hardly recognised my old friend during those days
50. Or suddenly five or six lines addressed to the whole of Russia, apropos of nothing, 'Make haste and lock up the churches, abolish God, do away with marriage, destroy the right of inheritance, take up your knives,' that's all, and God knows what it means