1.   But it is an apt expression of the sort of frustration Westerners feel when trying to untangle Afghan politics.

2.   Is his car an apt expression of his personality?

3.   That was an unintentionally apt expression.

4.   Then, searching for an apt expression for an unexpected, almost unnamable emotion, a few people quietly clapped their hands.

5.   Tuna remains an apt expression of small-town attitudes and of the conflicting impulses toward helpfulness and hostility in contemporary American life.