Another incongruity was the collection of curios and bric-a-brac garnered on their travels. From Wordnik.com. [Ultima Thule] Reference
She was liable to walk into the net at the last minute, and another incongruity was the last thing we needed. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
This stadium plan is the most unsustainable action the City has contemplated in a long time - the incongruity is absurd. From Wordnik.com. [New smoke and mirrors on Paulson stadiums deal (Jack Bog's Blog)] Reference
Canucks in the NFL doesn’t work so well as an analogy to Real Salt Lake, because the incongruity is too obvious to be seen as a mistake. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Play Soccer Like It’s 1799] Reference
But it's not the kind of incongruity that provokes laughter. From Wordnik.com. [Small and large falls.] Reference
ABC: It's sadly an incongruity which is part of a history we share. From Wordnik.com. [Middle East Interview - Today Programme] Reference
The third sort of theory focuses on the incongruity which is allegedly found in all humour. From Wordnik.com. [Clipmarks | Live Clips] Reference
It left just that incongruity which is at once the lure, the humour, and the perplexity of human life. From Wordnik.com. [The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment] Reference
"incongruity" that must be resolved to get the joke. From Wordnik.com. [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference
And all sense of incongruity vanished from her mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys] Reference
There was an incongruity of abrupt cafes on the beach. From Wordnik.com. [Until We Died] Reference
That's the incongruity that folks are trying to resolve. From Wordnik.com. [In Idaho, Waiting On Craig] Reference
It is an incongruity only a surrealist could appreciate. From Wordnik.com. [The Belgian Breakup] Reference
Rev.J. de Kewer Williams, the incongruity of it almost disappears. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
It's fair to say I think because of the surprise factor, the incongruity. From Wordnik.com. [Car Phone Salesman Captures British Hearts] Reference
The incongruity of thus arguing with a boy of seventeen did not strike Markham. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
Perhaps its most curious incongruity is its combination of secrecy and frankness. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
Antonio, the silent, strode over to the market woman -- the height of incongruity. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls] Reference
It bristles with incongruity and contradiction, yet it is as logical as a syllogism. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
"Very good," said Carleton suavely, as he surveyed the ridiculous incongruity before him. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
As Dan Rather said -- with comic incongruity, at Harvard -- "Don't bet the double-wide on it.". From Wordnik.com. [Digital Dispatches] Reference
Is this show some sort of metamusical, playing with the very incongruity of Dylan on Broadway?. From Wordnik.com. [Positively Broadway] Reference
No incongruity could possibly change the beauty and dignity of that service as conducted by our. From Wordnik.com. [Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati] Reference
After trench-warfare days there was an incongruity in some episodes, which was not devoid of humour. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference
Only in the corner, almost out of sight behind the desk, was the room's single absolute incongruity. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
Saxon lover, with that picturesque incongruity of poetical license permitted to mediæval versifiers. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
There was a congruous incongruity about her which set many people puzzling to find out her real character. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
"I'm kicking way less than I ever did in college," Mr. Dodge said, wryly nodding at the seeming incongruity. From Wordnik.com. [Giants to Rookie Punter: Punt Less] Reference
But respectfully let me say, I think much in these hours of the incongruity and pathos of excessive celebration. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
The Doctor felt this, but hardly its incongruity, as she slowly resumed her seat and signed to him to be seated also. From Wordnik.com. [A Bachelor's Dream] Reference
It seemed rather an incongruity, but it was a great convenience, since it connected directly with Diamond X, Triangle. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers in Camp or The Water Fight at Diamond X] Reference
If, therefore, they bear upon their surface variety of sentiment and incongruity of feeling, that fact will explain it. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses] Reference
This was a crow — a crow! — as menacing in its comfortable incongruity as if Hitchcock himself had planted it there. From Wordnik.com. [The Birdcage] Reference
“That's the world that I come from, so the incongruity of it all makes sense,” he adds, “if you scrunch your face up.”. From Wordnik.com. [Pentagon unit has dual mission: domestic psy-ops, disaster aid] Reference
The incongruity of such a proceeding did not apparently enter into the minds of those who gave currency to these unequal contests. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
And those people are watching him, an incongruity amidst the neon lights, dressed in a long white Thawb, or robe, and red prayer cap. From Wordnik.com. [After the brawl: Verbal assault on the train] Reference
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