All 26 Uses of
appropriate
in
A Soldier of the Great War
- With his white hair and thick white mustache, Alessand. ro Giuliani might have seemed English were it not for his cream-colored suit of distinctly Roman cut and a thin bamboo cane entirely inappropriate for an Englishman.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- Having the appropriate map at hand, Alessandro explained, was an obsession that he had had for a long time.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- The second quarter was tilled as a vegetable garden that produced crops appropriate to a small farm, and that even in January provided half a dozen kinds of greens for the cook to harvest every day, and little white daisies that the gardeners chose to overlook in their weeding because they were the only flowers of winter.†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- I'll take you to the appropriate official, and you can tell him yourself.†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- Covered by darkness and sheltered by distance and the wall, he pulled her toward him and they touched with no more pressure than would have been appropriate at an embassy dance, but then he lowered his left hand along her velvet cape, to the small of her back, and held tight.†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- Their hair was closely cropped, and their big, awkward, adolescent faces were appropriate for sawyers or guides in an Alpine village, or for the discontented sons of grocers in diose cities big enough for churches and squares.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- At several thousand meters, the gradually receding forest seemed more appropriate to Northern Europe than to Sicily, and so dark and well watered that it looked like a wood in medieval France, or the Villa Borghese at the beginning of December.†
Chpt 5 (definition 1)
- Madness was appropriate at the end.†
Chpt 6 (definition 1)
- What if he's not here?" the soldier who was sitting in the reception room said in an inappropriately loud voice.†
Chpt 6 (definition 1)
- After years of solidity and sobriety, of wisdom, power, and control, the attorney Giuliani was now forgetful, inappropriately amused, and unaware.†
Chpt 6 (definition 1)
- He was appropriately scientific and disciplined when conversing with De Roos, or with the specialists who appeared with the regular infrequency of trolley cars in the rain.†
Chpt 6 (definition 1)
- It seemed appropriate that the Italian lines had collapsed, as if the attorney Giuliani and millions of soldiers were fighting the same losing war on entirely different fronts, but they weren't.†
Chpt 6 (definition 1)
- The scratchings of the remaining pens, the occasional adjustment of a chair, and the quiet breathing were appropriate to an examination hall, and yet here, where the absolute destiny of hundreds of thousands was decided as if this were heaven itself, was none of the terror and urgency of a university examination hall, in which the stakes were almost meaningless.†
Chpt 7 (definition 1)
- Giammatti, Andrea: Don't talk to yourself, and do not smile inappropriately.†
Chpt 7 (definition 1)
- They made no protest as he dragged them to the window, and as he struggled to hoist them to the sill their arms and legs hung like loose brush and their eyes focused on inappropriate targets at inappropriate distances.†
Chpt 7 (definition 1)
- They made no protest as he dragged them to the window, and as he struggled to hoist them to the sill their arms and legs hung like loose brush and their eyes focused on inappropriate targets at inappropriate distances.†
Chpt 7 (definition 1)
- These former laborers, peasants, and bandits wore sheepskin vests, baggy pantaloons, and fezzes or gray mouton caps, all entirely inappropriate to the wild heat that blew across the Hungarian plain.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- Leave appropriate spaces.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- The mortars, however, were fired too early, and only one shell burst near the column, giving it appropriate warning and enabling it to halt before coming within machine-gun range.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- For each and every stroke, and for each of the lovely thunderclaps in the delirious music above, Alessandro heard ever-so-faintly another music that underlay it all, beyond which was no other, and that was perfectly appropriate both to the elated dancing in the ballroom and his torment in the cellar, because it tied them together and made them equally inconsequential.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- This concoction of drugs, and the waltzes that drifted through the courtyards and interiors, were the sources of a delirium appropriate to waiting for the termination of one way of life and the forced beginning of another.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- You must confine your judgment of the frequency of the rain to the appropriate times in question.†
Chpt 9 (definition 1)
- For such things your education is appropriate and mine non-existent.
Chpt 9 (definition 1) *appropriate = suitable (fitting)
- Hope would flare and he would shudder with the strong emotion appropriate to the presence or the imagination of miracles, but then his head would sink, and he would draw in a very different breath than the one that preceded it, weary and full of inexplicable friction, when he believed that he was deluding himself.†
Chpt 9 (definition 1)
- He set up a government within the government-by moving the decimal points in appropriations and salaries, sending his speechless enemies to tiny towns in Calabria, and rewarding sycophants with sinecures.
Chpt 10 (definition 2) *appropriations = budgeted amounts
- I don't know, but I think it is appropriate for me to decide how to die: not to take control that I will immediately relinquish, but to unify my life, to give it an artful shape, to affirm at the last that everything is not merely haphazard, to honor what I believe, and, perhaps for one last time, even should it mean nothing, to express my love.†
Chpt 10 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (appropriate as in: it is appropriate) suitable (fitting) for a particular situation
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(2) (appropriate as in: Congress will appropriate funds) to set aside for a particular use