incongruity

How To Use incongruity 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
• 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.
• The whole idea of a ‘soap opera’ suggests an overt incongruity between the daily mundaneness of the narrative and the lofty form it takes.
• The sheer oddness of the way the place functioned, the incongruity between functioning and pretension.
• Second, your mind begins to problem - solve in order to interpret this incongruity or surprise.