incongruously

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Examples of incongruously

  • Ordinarily, such sequences produce only bathos when their final terms are so incongruously weighty (and, as in the case of "sacrilege," imperfectly rhymed).

  • Incongruously, it would imply that underlying coda geminates lose their geminate status whenever they are placed in intervocalic position.

  • But we should expect older and newer technologies, like older and newer economic practices and mentalities, to co-exist, however incongruously, during a time of change.

  • Even more incongruously it had made him a figure to be courted, albeit not always with great appetite, by the cultural and artistic intelligentsia that had heretofore scorned him.

  • What stuck out rather incongruously in the two headings were the repeated apostrophes, which were large enough to be cut out and mounted by collectors of such ephemera.

  • Combined with their championing of working-class popular culture and (more incongruously) with their espousal of social reforms like old-age pensions, was a definite and electorally effective liberal message.

  • Kerman rests content, it seems, with his original view that the libretto is cynical and the music incongruously profound.

  • They are small passenger cars and, rather incongruously, sodium peroxide.

  • Then, perhaps slightly incongruously, at the end of his speech he made an announcement in considerable detail regarding the transference of certain research laboratories.

  • Stanwyck, he concluded, was incongruously chipper early in the film, while giving a stilted, distracted performance in the second half.

  • It consisted of drooping headlamps and taillights, with sharp angles employed incongruously to rounded surfaces.

  • The ruins of a large mansion from the empire still, rather incongruously, remain.

  • He intersperses the comedy with occasional songs, both serious and humorous, in an incongruously fine light baritone voice.

  • This season's score is sometimes incongruously serious (which actually adds to the humor on occasion), and its fan service level is orders of magnitude higher.

  • He puts a blue whale into his graphics, incongruously lying alongside the girl and her cat, to give an amusing idea of relative sizes.

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