How To Use Disjuncture In A Sentence

  • This apparatus functions as an aural disjuncture of space where the audience ‘wears’ the clothes and the sounds of another reality while negotiating the visual space of the gallery.
  • However, this discourse has a central theme of contradiction running through it, which sees a disjuncture between rhetoric and policies regarding localisation. The localised dream, riddled with contradiction… « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings…
  • This disjuncture between the process of ‘impersonal research’ and the ‘sudden intrusion’ of the historian's personality during writing is unrealistic.
  • However, this discourse has a central theme of contradiction, as there is a disjuncture between rhetoric and policies regarding localisation. 2009 July « My Political Ramblings…
  • There is an increasing disjuncture between conservative myth and cultural reality.
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  • -- remember, consumer confidence levels are very high, there's a kind of disjuncture between the consumer confidence surveys and the polls. Laura Tyson And Ron Brown Briefing On The Economy
  • It is interesting to consider again how Tory rhetoric and actual polices have a clear disjuncture, they are definitely the party of headlines and soundbites as much as Labour have been. Motorists’ trust eroded further by Tory proposals… « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings…
  • The best angle for Democrats would be to pry at the disjuncture between those two numbers rather than to hit the president head-on.
  • This topology is intended to give you some notion of the location of the point of disjuncture and conjuncture, of union and frontier, that can be occupied only by the desire of the analyst.
  • So what we have is a disjuncture between American immigration policy as it exists today and the simple realities of how our economy works.
  • ‘Wright's work with its uneasy disjuncture between form and content, produces the visceral sense of that sad knowledge’.
  • Ah yes, lack of achievement and the disjuncture between our previous idealistic plans and our present disappointing reality. Times, Sunday Times
  • Even these conflicts and disjunctures are brought into the structure of beer drinking, where they are, at least temporarily, resolved alongside the norm of interdependence and cooperation.
  • His film makes good use of the cultural disjunctures that are commonplace now in an urban setting (in this case Shanghai), like the rank pollution of the otherwise picturesque Suzhou River itself.
  • With most politicians in these sorts of settings I watch and see the disjuncture between what they are doing and what they should be doing, what they're supposed to be doing.
  • But there is an awkward disjuncture between these authors' description of the changing situation, and the bleak and brooding conclusions drawn along the way.
  • What is important is to embody, live, and work with these disjunctures and ambivalences.
  • It was, at the very least, a moment of radical disjuncture between two systems of exploitation. The Times Literary Supplement
  • This creates a disjuncture of relative development, with the economy much more advanced in its global organization than either the apparatuses of governance or the patterns of human identity.
  • He argues that this disjuncture comes from time's infinite capacity for substitution.
  • Electricity markets bring a disjuncture between price and the cost of production.
  • It may also be the case that there is a disjuncture between law and justice.
  • This is not merely a matter of a disjuncture between government policy and popular sentiment. The Times Literary Supplement
  • It was a strange disjuncture, the visual narrative hinting at a post-modern playfulness that the plodding music couldn't muster. Times, Sunday Times
  • The disjuncture between the ‘real’ world of economic drivers, and the froth of ideology and ‘politics’, continues.
  • The disjuncture between our public face and our private face arises from a failure of presentation, not of a failure of substance.
  • It would seem that there is a disjuncture between the low interest in politics and public life in general, and the high level of emotional engagement in the election debate.
  • The disjuncture between a flat but durable real economy and the spate of corporate scandals distressing a weak stockmarket gives a clue to what is really going on in US capitalism.
  • The disjuncture between the lived reality and the represented reality is also a function of the way the medium works, its rules of the game and the peculiar way in which peer and market pressures operate on it.
  • As stated in those blogs, these proposals show the disjuncture between Tory policy and rhetoric that there would be a route and branch change of power from the centre to local people. Signs of Cameron’s opportunism shinning through?…. « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings…
  • An explanation may lie in the disjuncture between human evolution and history. Times, Sunday Times
  • Through a clever temporal disjuncture that posits a radical and unmediated cultural dislocation between past and present, she is able to reconcile this orientalized image of modern Greece with a concomitant The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece
  • Which, in turn, suggests an interesting disjuncture between what people did and what society was prepared to admit to. Times, Sunday Times
  • Unemployment following graduation is high for these students, reflecting a disjuncture between market needs and university education.
  • By concentrating on the conditions of animation, above and beyond any issue of film/video, analog/digital, or any other technical distinction, "The Dissolve" examines one of the practices most central to the modern aesthetic (s) of disjuncture and fabrication. Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Moving Pictures, Frozen Music
  • To a child, the disjuncture between weekends (loud, funny, exciting, scary) and weekdays (calm, efficient, mildly dull) was like an ongoing exercise in culture shock.
  • What we quickly see is a disjuncture between the pattern, the model, the equation, the algorithm, etc. and people's actual lived experience.
  • This leads to exactly the kind of disjuncture we are seeing. Chaotic Currencies And Sliding Stocks Signal Seismic Shifts Ahead
  • Over time there came to be this kind of disjuncture between disco and funk and increasingly as disco became popular, record companies and managers pushed women [who made funk music] into disco, and disco became more feminized. Politics

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