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- It perplexed, as well as shocked her, by the irreverent inopportuneness of the occasions that brought it into vivid action.
- But that perversity, which all children have more or less of, and of which little Pearl had a tenfold portion, now, at the most inopportune moment, took thorough possession of her, and closed her lips, or impelled her to speak words amiss.
- Individuals of wiser faith, indeed, who knew that Heaven promotes its purposes without aiming at the stage-effect of what is called miraculous interposition, were inclined to see a providential hand in Roger Chillingworth’s so opportune arrival.
- They launched their company at an opportune time.
- During the rare, inopportune social moments when I found myself squeezed between black and white, I fled to the black side,James McBride -- The Color of Water
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