How To Use Incongruity In A Sentence
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Another incongruity was that between de Gaulle's ambition and the resources at his disposal.
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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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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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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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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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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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The authors attribute this incongruity to the higher rate of iatrogenic preterm deliveries in the untreated group.
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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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It makes them complicit in the well-tempered business of laughing at difference, incongruity, minority.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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The incongruity of flying fingers and deadpan faces was fun to watch.
Christianity Today
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The incongruity of her situation struck Gina with unpleasant force.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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It produces incongruity of style where the thoughts and diction differ from the poet's own.
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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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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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This incongruity revealed a much deeper problem than inconsistency in drawing racial lines between North and South.
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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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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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The incongruity of flying fingers and deadpan faces was fun to watch.
Christianity Today
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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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Second, your mind begins to problem - solve in order to interpret this incongruity or surprise.
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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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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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Bringing an object forward through time would create a parachronistic incongruity.
To Say Nothing of the Dog
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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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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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The sheer oddness of the way the place functioned, the incongruity between functioning and pretension.
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Second, your mind begins to problem - solve in order to interpret this incongruity or surprise.
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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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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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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 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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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
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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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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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Yet the beauty of the images and the operatic score overwhelm the incongruity.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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The conventional format and heroic pose of the sitter are perfectly offset by the incongruity of the costume and title.
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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 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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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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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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“And a parachronistic incongruity is an object whose removal has no effect?”
To Say Nothing of the Dog
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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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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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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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What causes incongruity in my life is spending so much of my life unaware of his presence.
Christianity Today
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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
