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How to use incongruity in a sentence

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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.
Perhaps acknowledging this incongruity, he spoofed his desperation in a series of photographs that mock his suicide.
That is why, of course, we do not rely upon either the artificiality or the incongruity of the exercise, let alone its invidiousness.
It is this ontologically negating principle that sets the stage for Rabelais's comedy of evil and incongruity.
Other images bask in incongruity, as when a hulking elk lounges in a wicker chaise at what might be a company picnic.
The sheer oddness of the way the place functioned, the incongruity between functioning and pretension.
The authors attribute this incongruity to the higher rate of iatrogenic preterm deliveries in the untreated group.
This incongruity revealed a much deeper problem than inconsistency in drawing racial lines between North and South.
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.
The parodist must both imitate and create incongruity in relation to the pretext, and parody has, contrary to pastiche, traditionally had a comic dimension.
The incongruity is that the member quoted his leader and what his comments were initially with regard to war as an instrument of state craft.
This incongruity caused her to suffer from a stressful condition called gender dysphoria.
This instant-swap capability enables users to compare whole images and check for any sense of incongruity or for unnatural images.
There is a perceived incongruity between the film's dark, fetishistic side and its ironic and humorous jabs at squeaky-clean middle-class America.
For some time now, we've felt a growing sense of unease over the incongruity of owning a boat we're unable to sail.
I was brooding over the incongruity that such carefreeness and our transport had, in fact, coexisted in time and space.
Pope Francis, who has chosen simplicity and modesty as his message, makes the incongruity even starker.
Imposing taboos on expressing certain emotions leads to incongruity between emotions and behaviour.
This incongruity suggests that it would be beneficial to increase taxes on non-energy efficient luxury vehicles, as some Member States have done.
It is inevitable that such an incongruity must come to an end, and this must form part of an action plan on the part of the European Union.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Hence the crudity and incongruity of his text, his vacillating opinions, and the weakness and poverty of his annotation.
What could come of such a collocation of names but a life of incongruity and absurdity!
The synoptist who is so lavish in his use of miraculous agency naturally sees no incongruity here.
Under these circumstances it was unrealizable that there should be any incongruity in the whole affair.
There is an incongruity about death on the battlefield which assails the mind.
For him to signalize his primacy by any decoration would be an incongruity.
He felt no incongruity in the veteran Parmenides correcting the youthful Socrates.
It bristles with incongruity and contradiction, yet it is as logical as a syllogism.
Then, in strange incongruity, there came again the wild, fantastic rhythm of a modern dance tune.
Now, it is a mere anomaly and incongruity here, out of date and out of purpose.
They are more than double her age, and yet they can see no incongruity in hoping to win her.
The oddity and incongruity of her attire attracted attention.
There is the same element of incongruity, without the tragic consequence.
His countenance expressed his sense of the incongruity of the union.
In its incongruity, as the narrator addresses the discerning and undiscerning reader, the work tilts the balance of normative reading.
The play of the white gleams of his smile round the suspicion of grimness of his tone fascinated me like a moral incongruity.
The picture is almost comic in its incongruity with what actually is.
The crass incongruity of her in that setting smote him with renewed force.
I remember once having the incongruity of the relation brought home to me in a practical way.
The incongruity of the word was enough to make one jump out of the chair.
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