congruity

How To Use congruity In A Sentence

• 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
• Perhaps acknowledging this incongruity, he spoofed his desperation in a series of photographs that mock his suicide.
• Second, your mind begins to problem - solve in order to interpret this incongruity or surprise.
• The incongruity of desks and posters, chalkboards and murals and lockers paired with combat footage. So Much Pretty
• lapstone," quite as Mr. Symons called a spherical object a "cannon ball": bent upon a discrediting incongruity: The Book of the Damned
• My labours (if I may so term that which was the comfort of my other labours) I have dedicated to the King; desirous, if there be any good in them, it may be as the fat of a sacrifice, incensed to his honour: and the second copy I have sent unto you, not only in good affection, but in a kind of congruity, in regard of your great and rare desert of learning. Selected English Letters
• Authentication of the unknown painting included a congruity between crinkles in the paint surface of the unknown picture, and cut marks on the back of the Minneapolis Study.
• Still he as constantly maintained them, with a kind of congruity that astonished me, and even rendered many of them plausible. Anna St. Ives
• Bringing an object forward through time would create a parachronistic incongruity. To Say Nothing of the Dog
• 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.