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2 days ago · A: True. And “pompous” is another great French-derived word. Q: Okay, so to recap. “Apropos” can describe something relevant or opportune. But it can also be a preposition, usually with “of”, meaning “with regard to”. A: That’s right. So if something is “apropos of nothing” it’s unrelated to anything.
3 days ago · One afternoon I’m working in my backyard when apropos of nothing an actual idea for a novel comes to me. The idea takes about 90 seconds to play out in my mind, like a little mental explosion. This idea is of a different order than the one I had back in Act II.
2 days ago · The statement was apropos of nothing. They weren’t discussing Israel. But it was said in the same smug, certain tone as one would say “we oppose serial killing here at Harvard. ...
3 days ago · The parapet is a fiddlefaddle of pretty cast-iron arcading, out of scale with the columns, incongruous with the capitals, and quite unsuited for a work that should be simply grand in its usefulness; and at each corner of the bridge is a huge block of masonry, àpropos of nothing, a well-known evidence of desperate imbecility."
3 hours ago · (Apropos of nothing, we’re big fans of going on holiday around here, and coincidentally our staff picks features have a Holliday as a fan.
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1 day ago · Allen repeated his denial of the allegations and also addressed in detail how and why the allegations against him were false in his 2020 memoir entitled “Apropos of Nothing”. Abuse allegations against Farrow. Soon Yi Previn and Moses Farrow have defended Allen against the abuse allegations.
