The aptness of iron to rust.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The phrase had considerable aptness.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Manning points out that a pattern of cognitive failure, followed by delayed understanding, has a certain aptness here.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Save 'Tintern Abbey' from New-Critical Pedagogy (in Three Minutes Fifty-Six Seconds)] Reference

Many men present bowed their heads at the aptness of the sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Terror]

He reveals at every point the aptness of the practiced playwright.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Theory of the Theatre] Reference

The excess may be called an over-aptness to Anger: for the passion is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ethics] Reference

In other words, I am not convinced of the aptness of your critique here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Networking Group Opposing FISA Cave On Obama's Web Site Grows And Grows] Reference

The aptness of native women to adopt fancy articles of dress and ornament.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wonder Island Boys: Adventures on Strange Islands] Reference

Many of them in advancement and aptness will compare well with white children.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 07, July, 1888] Reference

And he did it all with an aptness, a readiness, a grace, which was incontestable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

That is the happy manner with Romance; that is the enviable aptness of the child.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference

Love has been compared to a variety of objects, all of them with more or less aptness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

The examples given in the story of the aptness of this remark are often very touching.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australian Writers] Reference

A Chinese official referred to the aptness of the U.S. theme - rising to the challenge.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. Exhibit At World Expo Opens To Mixed Reviews] Reference

Scripture which she had made hers were now drawn upon with singular aptness and felicity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elizabeth Fry] Reference

This suspension of aptness, carried to the extreme, produces such vague and weak titles as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story] Reference

This description, when it occurs, should be characterized mainly by aptness and concreteness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Fairy Tales] Reference

| Reply | Permalink half-dozen but half-doze has a certain aptness, when you get down to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: Large Majority Supports Obama's Foreign Policy Views] Reference

But the distinction between the two might be conveyed with at least equal aptness in this way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deductive Logic] Reference

The other is the disposition of the one who judges, on which depends his aptness for judging aright.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference

The aptness of the quotation will be appreciated by the reader who is in at the death of the Louisiana.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner] Reference

"This is sort of a war," Joe Torre had told the sportswriters, not even realizing the aptness of his metaphor.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Need Our Yanks, Now More Than Ever] Reference

'Invaders should behave with more dignity,' said the doctor, his sense of historical aptness somewhat offended.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]

All conversations died as she sang, with what appeared to Piemur to be incredible aptness, the "Fire Lizard Song.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragon Drums]

The old gentleman had him taught to read and write, and his aptness was such as to highly gratify the kind old soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Garies and Their Friends] Reference