Doing the right thing

Usage examples of appropriateness.

But on the whole, women have made great strides in the matter of costuming with a view to appropriateness and efficiency.

England in the eighteenth century, when picturesqueness, not appropriateness, was the demand of the times.

They were ultrafashionable in dress, and, though no one could deny the richness of their decorations, yet their appropriateness might be questioned amidst the simplicity of a country church.

Most people assumed time of living alone in a valley was a period of trial and abstine10 many who felt called to Serve the Mother endured, and to th way with animals verified the appropriateness of her Callino k wasn't One Who Served yet, it was only a matter of time.

With an almost eerie appropriateness, consider­ing it's Sam Webster we're talking about, it turned out to be one of the very few silly deathwatches of all time.

A complete socialism would have as much need for structural appropriateness in its cost accounting as do free entrepreneurs.

The droll appropriateness of this fate-the dramatic irony-so pleased the Captain-Leader that a ruling was made, overturning the Priest-Stack's desire.

Indeed, it is almost, interestingly enough, as though they were made for the coffle, and understood the appropriateness, the rightfulness, of their place within it.

As she explained all this to me, she pointed to the decorations on her golden armlets, upon the knob of her dagger-hilt and upon the band which encircled her right leg above the knee--always was the design partly made up of isosceles triangles, and when she explained the significance of this particular geometric figure, I at once grasped its appropriateness.