Apposite

apposite







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–adjective 

suitable; well-adapted; pertinent; relevant; apt: an apposite answer.  





 　

Metropolitan is an unashamedly literary film. Tom is unmistakably an offspring of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s sincere young heroes, although the world he enters is more closely knit and fundamentally provincial than Fitzgerald’s haut monde. 



It is, in fact, a [fishbowl] out of Jane Austen. 



None of these allusions are exactly concealed by the director, who also wrote the script. Austen is virtually a character in the story, but Stillman manages to avoid its seeming coy when, 



for example, Tom and Audrey argue about the "immorality" of the young players in Mansfield Park (Tom, characteristically, has not read the book, but relies on Lionel Trilling’s account, since critics spare the reader needless toil by supplying the writer’s views as well as their own). 



The dialogue is ostentatiously written; every character wields subordinate clauses and uses words like however and nevertheless. The combination of stilted speeches and deft behavioral acting sometimes seems peculiar, but it is also peculiarly apposite. 



Like Austen, Stillman wears his irony lightly and deploys it affectionately. 





incontinent

contingent

contingent [liability]

Our plans are contingent [on] the weather.  

Have the [Scottish] contingent arrived at the meeting yet?

extraneous

pertinent

It might be [pertinent] for you to make the suggestion to the president.

The lawyer wanted to know all the details [pertinent] to the case.

Klaws, a nice middle-aged couple who just happen to specialize in mild S&M and bondage photographs. The [pertinent] photo shoots are represented as silly,

cogent

the brief affair serves as a cogent [illustration] of how the film conveys only a fraction of the nuances and layers of the book.

His remarks were an entirely [cogent] and candid summing up of the state of affairs, and, among the [cadre] of Nixon haters,

Flabbergast