| It depends for its effect, not upon ornament, which perforce appears trivial and inapposite, but upon its mass. |
| As the country pauses to mourn the dead in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, now may seem more than usually inapposite. |
| He stood before his bookshelves trying to select a volume, rejecting one after another as inapposite. |
| The parallels between Saudi Arabia and Iran, with due respect, are quite inapposite. |
| Some scholars cautioned against reading too much into very limited information culled from an inapposite decision. |
| The fact that both pressure and drainage fittings are made of copper is particularly inapposite. |
