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incongruity
1. Surreal in its bizarre incongruity, a spotlight followed him as he ran…
2. The sight had a kind of incongruity to it
3. “She’s probably a foreigner like William,” Brie suggested to explain away the incongruity
4. Mark stared at him, flabbergasted by the incongruity of his words, and fiercely ground out the urge to laugh, for he knew it would be a bitter laughter, and that once he started, he wouldn’t be able to stop
5. He saw no incongruity in a princess lying down on the naked ground beside a campfire, wrapped in a warrior's cloak
6. the ideal self, the "I am" and the "I should" is called incongruity
7. Throughout my training, I had questioned Bonnie about her ability to channel spirit-entities, especially after she threaten… advised me that I was to become a channel as part of my alleged quest: Initially, my intention was to catch her in an incongruity, but she regularly said that it was not time to explain the full process to me
8. He listened to that word, let it hang, the pretty incongruity of it,
9. The dockyard staff were slightly dumbstruck by the incongruity of this small group of assorted
10. Then, when we analyze the four kinds of karma: Past, Present, Future and Allotted, the last one stands out as an incongruity
11. beginning, the total incongruity of such a union had totally confused the gods, and
12. She shook her head at the incongruity of it
13. incongruity of this last action with her own
14. may look like in incongruity with rest of us
15. On the Perception of Incongruity: A
16. incongruity of running hot and cold water, toilets, and
17. So how can we reconcile ‘God’ with love and creation, with the trauma, suffering, pain and tragedy of abuse, suffering and death? Perhaps we can reconcile ‘God’ and these events by asking about what inferences can be made from the perceived incongruity of ‘God’ and the experience of grief and pain, of life and death, of living and dying, of existing and not existing, of being alive one minute and dead the next
18. The laundry fluttered in the breeze, as innocent as a young girl's smile, the only incongruity being the row of seagull heads that glared at him with impotent hatred, their beaks gagged open on the line
19. The incongruity of her statement was absurd
20. Look at the incongruity of reasoning standing out like a hug knot on a limb
21. For if the curse of the law in virtue of which we are, by nature, 'children of wrath,’ were everlasting misery, there would be an incongruity between the two parts of the Apostle’s statement
22. " We can see the whole scene at a glance, the stolid unconsciousness of Sancho and the perplexity of his master, upon whose perception the incongruity has just forced itself
23. It is strange that this element of incongruity, underlying the whole humour and purpose of the book, should have been so little heeded by the majority of those who have undertaken to interpret "Don Quixote
24. It is the incongruity of Sancho in all his ways, words, and works, with the ideas and aims of his master, quite as much as the wonderful vitality and truth to nature of the character, that makes him the most humorous creation in the whole range of fiction
25. He had that incongruity of common and elegant in which the habitually vulgar think they see the revelation of an eccentric existence, of the perturbations of sentiment, the tyrannies of art, and always a certain contempt for social conventions, that seduces or exasperates them
26. Paul looked at his father's thick, brownish hands all scarred, with broken nails, rubbing the fine smoothness of his sides, and the incongruity struck him
27. Neither he nor she had had any such adventure before and neither was conscious of any incongruity
28. Not with pleasure, though I was bound to him by so many ties; no; with considerable disturbance, some mortification, and a keen sense of incongruity
29. “And what reason is that?” asked Hester, half smiling at the absurd incongruity of the child's observation; but, on second thoughts, turning pale
30. Monygham an air at the same time professional and festive; while his gait and the unchanged crabbed character of his face acquired from it a startling force of incongruity
31. To Tess's sense there was, just at first, a ghastly bizarrerie , a grim incongruity, in the march of these solemn words of Scripture out of such a mouth
32. ” William pointed to an incongruity
33. "What original notions you clever men have!" said Rosamond, dimpling with more thorough laughter than usual at this humorous incongruity
34. It may seem odd that with such pleasant habits he should have been given to the heroic treatment, bleeding and blistering and starving his patients, with a dispassionate disregard to his personal example; but the incongruity favored the opinion of his ability among his patients, who commonly observed that Mr
35. It was in fact the very appropriate truth that she had ventured to criticize the propriety, to hint at the incongruity, of so close an alliance, and even to go so far on the subject as a frank overture to Miss Jessel
36. And why must we learn that last? In all the mad incongruity, the turgid stultiloquy of life, I felt, at least, securely anchored to myself
37. I could pass anywhere for twenty-five to thirty years of age, and to be a great uncle always seemed the height of incongruity, for my thoughts and feelings were those of a boy
38. His slightly stooped shoulders were draped in an ill-fitting, though immaculate, frock coat, and a shiny silk hat added to the incongruity of his garb in an African jungle
39. Nor, strictly investigated, is there any incongruity in this comparison
40. Our frost and flowers —such an incongruity ! I wasn't thinking of that though, I simply longed to crush it because it was so lovely
41. I was overwhelmed with depression, too; I had an hysterical craving for incongruity and for contrast, and so I took to vice
42. The position occupied by Toporoff, involving as it did an incongruity of purpose, could only be held by a dull man devoid of moral sensibility
43. The incongruity of the position he occupied was this
44. “Are we not doing the same,” Nekhludoff thought, “when we imagine ourselves to be masters of our lives, and that life is given us for enjoyment? This evidently is an incongruity
45. Hence he must suffer both from his sense of the incongruity and his own share in it
46. Perhaps its most curious incongruity is its combination of secrecy and frankness