All 7 Uses
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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- When they realized they could not reach the parrot even with their extension ladders, the firemen began to chop at the branches with machetes, and only the opportune arrival of Dr. Urbino Daza prevented them from mutilating the tree all the way to the trunk.†
Chpt 1
- After three days of favorable water, however, it became more difficult to navigate between inopportune sandbanks and deceptive rapids.†
Chpt 3 *inopportune = bad circumstances for a particular purpose -- especially the circumstance of timingstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inopportune means not and reverses the meaning of opportune. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- She never understood the charm of serenity in bed, never had a moment of invention, and her orgasms were inopportune and epidermic: an uninspired lay.†
Chpt 3
- But she did so in such a casual way and at such an inopportune moment that it did not go in one of Dr. Urbino's ears and out the other, as she thought; it did not go in at all.†
Chpt 4
- She was encouraged by the certainty that he was there, still alive but without his masculine whims, his patriarchal demands, his consuming need for her to love him in the same ritual of inopportune kisses and tender words with which he loved her.†
Chpt 6
- There was no difference between Dr. Urbino Daza and his public image: his talents were limited, his manner awkward, and he suffered from sudden twitching, caused by either happiness or annoyance, and from inopportune blushing, which made one fear for his mental fortitude.†
Chpt 6
- Besides, many times in the history of the river the yellow plague flag had been flown in order to evade taxes, or to avoid picking up an undesirable passenger, or to elude inopportune inspections.†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(opportune) favorable circumstances for a particular purpose -- especially the circumstance of good timing
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)