How To Use Congruity In A Sentence
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In an age when a Catholic leader and writer strikes a note of congruity, one is more shocked than pleased.
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Perhaps getting those cables installed and cleared, along with congruity and healthful habits, can carry us through those times when prayer or meditation or mindfulness is too hard.
Spirituality and Suffering « Tales from the Reading Room
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The incongruity of her situation struck Gina with unpleasant force.
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In fact, there is a kind of congruity and method even in fooling.
The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory
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The sheer oddness of the way the place functioned, the incongruity between functioning and pretension.
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The incongruity of her situation struck Gina with unpleasant force.
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This congruity is most obvious during "Everything," with an insistent chugging that quotes the Jewellery opener "Vulture.
Daniel J. Kushner: Audio Outliers: Rediscovering Recent Gems in Experimental Music
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Such a congruity can be realized if the aesthetic, which plays such a key role in concealing violence for de Man, is renamed history: it is ultimately the transparency of a text that authorizes access to social history.
Aesthetic Violence and the Legitimacy of Reading Romanticism
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Yet those arts of design in which that younger people delights [221] have in them already, as designed work, that spirit of reasonable order, that expressive congruity in the adaptation of means to ends, of which the fully developed admirableness of human form is but the consummation --
Greek Studies: a Series of Essays
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The incongruity of flying fingers and deadpan faces was fun to watch.
Christianity Today
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Recent historiography has argued that the British ecclesiastical policies of James I, (king of England (1603-25) and, as James VI, of Scotland (1567-1625)), sought "congruity" between the different churches in Scotland, England, and
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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It would seem to be a born of the same zeitgeist that brought us Avenue Q; our desire to titter at the incongruity of naughty and innocent.
Erika Milvy: Oh, Naughty Muppets. What Would Jim Henson Think of You Now?W
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The incongruity theory also offers the best way to explore the relationship between humour, emotion and cognition.
The Times Literary Supplement
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It makes them complicit in the well-tempered business of laughing at difference, incongruity, minority.
Times, Sunday Times
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And so I jumped at your analogy, ignoring the Neibuhrian incongruity between individual and nation that makes earning our way off our meds something for individuals to aspire to, but for nations never to finally accomplish, each succeeding generation needing to reclimb that mountain anew, given base human nature.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Activist Government” and the Rights of Minorities
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The authors attribute this incongruity to the higher rate of iatrogenic preterm deliveries in the untreated group.
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There is no effort to resolve the incongruity of the movie's semirealistic images with the ethereal play of animated birds comically smashing into things.
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Ironically, even as the government was fulminating against American policy, American jeans and videocassettes were the hottest items in the stalls of the market, where the incongruity can be seen as an example of human inconsistency.
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Perspective by incongruity is one tool that instructors can use to persuade students that the media are congruous with critical analysis and not merely with entertainment and escape.
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Goal congruity between parental firms has a positive influence on personal attachment, while cultural distance between them exerts a negative effect.
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The recorded commentaries struck a fine congruity between historical details and interesting human insights into what had happened in those resplendent rooms.
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Many Arab demonstrators have spoken hopefully of democracy, before and after overthrowing a dictator, but democracy is a system not effectively adopted without significant cultural congruity.
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Works done before the grace of Christ, and the Inspiration of his Spirit, are not pleasant to God, forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Jesus Christ, neither do they make men meet to receive grace, or as the School-authors say deserve grace of congruity: yea, rather, for that they are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to be done, we doubt not but they have the nature of sin.
TEXAS FAITH: Why are millennials dropping out? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
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If now and then a "uniped" happens to stray into it, the incongruity is as conspicuous as in the case of
The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest
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Eric Clarke largely passes over Shelley's essay; he notes that Shelley could not get over an incongruity between Greek paederasty and Greek philosophy as thus he "postulated wet daydreams as the true source" behind homoeroticism (127).
Notes on 'The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality'
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This incongruity revealed a much deeper problem than inconsistency in drawing racial lines between North and South.
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An earlier paper had suggested that the phenomenon of transforming items by moving or reduplicating words might be connected with reactions to incongruity.
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In that alone, she says that the UN under Ban's leadership has seen "decline over a broad scale - from small things to more important" … "no more any congruity between responsibility and authority" … and calls today's UN an "adhocracy" in which "disintegrated and ill thought through
The Rosett Report
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Dane was, by a kind of congruity, called on to make his own.
Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine
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The legends which fill up the dark space with _eponymous_ heroes, as they have been called -- heroes who take the name of a tribe in order to bestow it back upon the tribe; for it was the Greek mode of thinking at these early periods to presume that every tribe, or _gens_, had a common progenitor from whom it took its title and origin, -- these legends are at one time treated with the due suspicion which should attend upon them; yet, at another, if a fortunate congruity, some lucky "dovetailing," can be observed amongst them, they are raised into the rank of historical evidence.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847
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In the end it is the feeling of incongruity that persists, something obstinate and impenitent and a sense that nobody quite knows what to do about it.
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It produces incongruity of style where the thoughts and diction differ from the poet's own.
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Zen serenity rides shotgun with plastic Americana, in a post-modernist (and signature 'psychedelia') "union of incongruity.
Larbear's Aoxomoxoa Thesis
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In my by-past songs I dislike one thing, the name Chloris -- I meant it as the fictitious name of a certain lady: but, on second thoughts, it is a high incongruity to have a Greek appellation to a Scottish pastoral ballad.
The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
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Ironically, even as the government was fulminating against American policy, American jeans and videocassettes were the hottest items in the stalls of the market, where the incongruity can be seen as an example of human inconsistency.
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In the flush of his success, the only thought he spared for the unlucky Stu Trask was a reflection on the incongruity of the image of the dour and homely Trask—sad-eyed, stooped, balding, and emaciated but for a small paunch—and his fateful weakness.
O: A Presidential Novel
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Sitting above an advertisement for live jive music, it seems to capture the incongruity of a violent death in this easy-going part of Glasgow.
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The girls will screech when she says this, fall about laughing, because for someone so tiny and sweet, the incongruity of these words is hilarious, and she knows it.
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Ironically, even as the government was fulminating against American policy, American jeans and videocassettes were the hottest items in the stalls of the market, where the incongruity can be seen as an example of human inconsistency.
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Now by frequent repetition the surprise, incongruity, or novelty ceases; and, in consequence, the pleasure or pain which accompanied it, and also the degree of volition which was excited by that sensation of pain or pleasure; and thus the sensorial power of sensation and of volition are subducted from the catenation of vital actions, and they are in consequence produced much weaker, and at length cease entirely.
Note VII
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By the way, incongruity is the middle name of this insipid film with characters too many and too sketchy and actors short of work or talent, or both.
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He would undoubtedly feel the perfect congruity of officiating as bridesman at the wedding.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Each snapshot moment encapsulates a state, every congruity and interstice between them suggests a transformation, and -- assuming the viewer actually gets it -- the film resolves into an excruciatingly tender and poignant portrayal of a relationship.
Archive 2008-08-01
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Another incongruity was that between de Gaulle's ambition and the resources at his disposal.
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Mill was dissatisfied with the "congruity" of concepts as the basis of a judgment.
Logic Deductive and Inductive
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(king of England (1603-25) and, as James VI, of Scotland (1567-1625)), sought "congruity" between the different churches in Scotland, England, and Ireland rather than British ecclesiastical union or the Anglicanization of all the churches.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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What I have been trying to do is define a congruity or community of interest between farmers and conservationists who are not farmers.
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On a dozen axes of values, then, there is a deep congruity, much of it reflecting the influence of the archaic epic bard on the nineteenth-century novelist.
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The incongruity theory also offers the best way to explore the relationship between humour, emotion and cognition.
The Times Literary Supplement
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And there was Polly, the child, seated in the room, and looking about nine or ten years old: and I was distinctly conscious of the fact, yet without any feeling of surprise at its incongruity, that I was going to take the _child_ Polly with me to the theatre, to see the _grown-up_ Polly act!
The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson)
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One cannot overlook the conceptual congruity between the concepts of damp stagnation (defined as pathological body fluids clogging the organs and channels) and peripheral tissue resistance, due to obesity.
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Put another, metaphorical way, American writers tend toward an expressive register commensurate with the open spaces and endless distances of our continent; Perec's magnitude is no less great, but his vastness is essentially urban, highly structured, and by necessity constrained, entailing complex negotiations and yielding delight in serendipity, surprise, and incongruity.
Art and Culture
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Second, your mind begins to problem - solve in order to interpret this incongruity or surprise.
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No paleographical description of it, however, has yet been published, from which the period of its construction might be determined, or the congruity of its parts verified.
The Voyage of Verrazzano A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America
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The sheer oddness of the way the place functioned, the incongruity between functioning and pretension.
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It is now time to call attention to an incongruity in the conception of the rational man from which this chapter started.
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The whole idea of a ‘soap opera’ suggests an overt incongruity between the daily mundaneness of the narrative and the lofty form it takes.
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Ballard's ‘Index’ trades on such incongruity, but it also betrays a linear narrative that emerges from the list of headwords despite their alphabetization, which would lead one to expect a random distribution of references.
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Bringing an object forward through time would create a parachronistic incongruity.
To Say Nothing of the Dog
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Still he as constantly maintained them, with a kind of congruity that astonished me, and even rendered many of them plausible.
Anna St. Ives
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Authentication of the unknown painting included a congruity between crinkles in the paint surface of the unknown picture, and cut marks on the back of the Minneapolis Study.
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My labours (if I may so term that which was the comfort of my other labours) I have dedicated to the King; desirous, if there be any good in them, it may be as the fat of a sacrifice, incensed to his honour: and the second copy I have sent unto you, not only in good affection, but in a kind of congruity, in regard of your great and rare desert of learning.
Selected English Letters
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lapstone," quite as Mr. Symons called a spherical object a "cannon ball": bent upon a discrediting incongruity:
The Book of the Damned
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The incongruity of desks and posters, chalkboards and murals and lockers paired with combat footage.
So Much Pretty
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Second, your mind begins to problem - solve in order to interpret this incongruity or surprise.
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Perhaps acknowledging this incongruity, he spoofed his desperation in a series of photographs that mock his suicide.
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He was all in green velvet, and every button of his doublet was a brilliant of price; and that gay raiment by its incongruity seemed to heighten the tragedy of the moment.
The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza
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Yet it is a mistake to interpret the current close alliance as a congruity of interests.
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Safari purists may well be horrified at the incongruity of all this luxury plonked in the middle of one of the world's best game parks.
Times, Sunday Times
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The parodist must both imitate and create incongruity in relation to the pretext, and parody has, contrary to pastiche, traditionally had a comic dimension.
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Perhaps the political coloration of his lecture is accidental, but it is hard to overlook the congruity of his theoretical exegesis with a familiar political posture in the contemporary scene.
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Safari purists may well be horrified at the incongruity of all this luxury plonked in the middle of one of the world's best game parks.
Times, Sunday Times
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What causes incongruity in my life is spending so much of my life unaware of his presence.
Christianity Today
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Other images bask in incongruity, as when a hulking elk lounges in a wicker chaise at what might be a company picnic.
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It is now time to call attention to an incongruity in the conception of the rational man from which this chapter started.
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As these pews were either oblong or square, were both large and small, painted and unpainted, and as each pewholder could exercise his own "tast or disresing" in the kind of wood he used in the formation of his pew, as well as in the style of finish, much diversity and incongruity of course resulted.
Sabbath in Puritan New England
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“And a parachronistic incongruity is an object whose removal has no effect?”
To Say Nothing of the Dog
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We are told also by his sister -- and there is no incongruity in the two accounts -- that he early displayed a taste for 'preheminence and would preside over his playmates as their master and they his hired servants.'
The Rowley Poems
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Now by frequent repetition the surprise, incongruity, or novelty ceases; and, in consequence, the pleasure or pain which accompanied it, and also the degree of volition which was excited by that sensation of pain or pleasure; and thus the sensorial power of sensation and of volition are subducted from the catenation of vital actions, and they are in consequence produced much weaker, and at length cease entirely.
Note VII
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The whole idea of a ‘soap opera’ suggests an overt incongruity between the daily mundaneness of the narrative and the lofty form it takes.
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There is a perceived incongruity between the film's dark, fetishistic side and its ironic and humorous jabs at squeaky-clean middle-class America.
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The conventional format and heroic pose of the sitter are perfectly offset by the incongruity of the costume and title.
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The Hinkley Point development in fact erupts with total incongruity from the flat coastal plain which borders the Bristol Channel.
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Yet the beauty of the images and the operatic score overwhelm the incongruity.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is at least simple enough for the simplest of critics to apply or misapply: whenever they see or suspect an inequality or an incongruity which may be wholly imperceptible to eyes uninured to the use of their spectacles, they assume at once the presence of another workman, the intrusion of a stranger's hand.
A Study of Shakespeare
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The incongruity of flying fingers and deadpan faces was fun to watch.
Christianity Today
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(king of England (1603-25) and, as James VI, of Scotland (1567-1625)), sought "congruity" between the different churches in Scotland, England, and
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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Your first assignment is to tell me what would happen if a parachronistic incongruity had occurred, what indications we would have of it.
To Say Nothing of the Dog
