There is a war on. It's not the most opportune of times to distract the president with a phony political scandal.
-- James Taranto, OpinionJournal, January 14, 2002
With corporate America under siege, there has never been a more opportune moment to adopt better business practices.
-- Arianna Huffington, "The Coming Corporate Revolution?", AlterNet, August 12, 2002
O lesson opportune, O how I welcome thee!
-- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass