incongruity

How To Use incongruity In A Sentence

• Another incongruity was that between de Gaulle's ambition and the resources at his disposal.
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• The authors attribute this incongruity to the higher rate of iatrogenic preterm deliveries in the untreated group.
• 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
• It makes them complicit in the well-tempered business of laughing at difference, incongruity, minority. Times, Sunday Times
• The incongruity theory also offers the best way to explore the relationship between humour, emotion and cognition. The Times Literary Supplement