Many liken these games to movies - and it's an apt comparison.

The guard thought an elderly giraffe was a more apt comparison.

He weaves rituals of remembrance and aesthetic representations into the politics and economics that issued from the war, with apt comparisons to the pre-1914 era.

It was an apt metaphor for the previous 90 minutes, which were desperately short on quality.

It was an apt metaphor for what was to follow.

It seems an apt metaphor for a coalition stuck in the twilight zone.

It seems an apt metaphor for his life.

An apt metaphor for the airline business right now?

Carbon dioxide he called 'fixed air', a peculiarly apt name in these days of global warming.

It's an apt name, because chief executives, finance directors and scheme trustees have been praying for a solution to their pensions quandary for some time.

But what an apt name.

And it was, in retrospect, an apt name.

Now that's an apt name.

That said, we're not convinced that comparisons are entirely apt.

If the characters he meets sometimes verge on caricature, this feels not just forgivable but - in a narrative attuned to the structure and language of myth - entirely apt.

And the words are entirely apt.

It was indeed a 'vox humana', especially apt in a work given over at one point to a lamentation for the dead.

The last of these seems especially apt for a book which concerns itself with the unity of the library and the diversity of its composite parts.

His own back catalogue seems especially apt.

Other virtues are much less apt to look constructed in this sense: think again of love or generosity, for example.

Most folks probably expect youth who attend religious services religiously to be less apt to break rules than other youth.

However, if the metal has a high number of stacking faults (a difference in stacking sequence between atomic planes) it will be less apt to cross-slip at the dislocations.

But the term became particularly apt because they mostly endured a brutal existence and ended up ruminating on failure.

I thought this stanza was particularly apt for last week's budget as we all wonder where exactly we are going to feel the pinch.

The echoes of bogus chivalry in the behaviour of the 'expenses knight' are particularly apt.

That struck me as particularly apt.

A particularly apt phrase has been coined for them school phobic.