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I thought about this possibility, but it seemed a bit incongruous given Pixar's past track record of films with progressive themes.

I was also immediately captivated by the incongruous look of an old piece of lumber sporting a fine headset and supporting a fork and wheel.

I'm smiling because whenever we touch on the subject of this book which he is going to write some day things assume an incongruous aspect.

I described to him the way I had felt when he had looked at me and how incongruous it had been for me to be tongue-tied by it.

He is taller than I had supposed. Wearing a black suit with a white shirt, his shock of white hair is incongruous against a cherubic face.

Oxymoron: A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist.

art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants.

There was one question that especially struck her, it seemed so incongruous.

An incongruous scene in the midst of a huge sandy desert: twisted, gnarled trees and a brilliant starched-white ground that supports them.

if catherine had got rid of her incongruous lover , she deserved the credit of it.

The hot-looking rear-engined Pantera was sold at Lincoln-Mercury dealers, a rather incongruous retailing channel for a car like this.

The pledges of solidarity always concealed an incongruous relationship between a liberal democracy and a traditional monarchy.

It looks like an incongruous mixture, but it appears to work.

They looked so incongruous towering over the regular eggs that I just had to have one.

is assumed, it is surely incongruous to postulate a first cause as a way of escaping from the coils of an infinite series.

Then , a strangely incongruous sight struck her eyes .

As a result, we saw such incongruous sights as an underprivileged old man spring on the floor and a grumpy granny firing off kungfu kicks.

It would have been creaky in a 1930s B movie, but here, it seemed as incongruous as a plane crashing into the street.

This behavior is incongruous with the user perception both in sight and touch. A knock is a knock to us, but apparently not to the HDAPS.

Comedy is a contrast between two individually consistent but forever incongruous frames of reference linked in an unexpected and sudden way.

Such a long, slow process seems incongruous given the pace of technological change.

It could have been mawkish , and pretty Amy does look incongruous in the TV film next to the stories and pictures of war and death.

The incongruous phenomenon with Western financing theory indicates the particularity of financing behaviour for Chinese listed corporation.

and we begin to hear FAINT MUSIC in the woods, tinny and incongruous, and still we keep PULLING BACK until. . .

It might seem incongruous that a plaything for the unabashed American road warrior is shifting to a country where the bicycle once ruled.

Wikileaks has enlisted the architects of media disinformation to fight media disinformation: An incongruous and self-defeating procedure.

But that apart, it is an enjoyable yarn about a famous author's incongruous role in a murky, vitally important period of European history.

However, a mere discussion on the perception of the incongruous element and the interpretation of the humorous utterances are conducted.

If the nonverbal cues and the spoken message are incongruous, the flow of communication is hindered.

It seems beautifully incongruous, a zen-like irony, holding a technology event in the great outdoors.

When listening to a joke, the first part of the humor is the punch line, an incongruous ending.

They set out in incongruous detail the limits of abuse.

How incongruous seemed the mem-sahibs there, in their evening-dresses, the hum of English conversation, and the ripples of laughter!

Verbal statements seem incongruous with accompanying affect, or incongruous with accompanying non-verbal messages. 184.

The very idea of mixing garbage with music seems so incongruous as to be ideal.

The bravado seemed incongruous with the shyness in his shoulders.

In the face of structurally higher prices, both look incongruous.

Negotiating with terrorists is incongruous with national policy.

a plan incongruous with reason; incongruous behavior; a joke that was incongruous with polite conversation.

To study history only to enrich one's daily life would here again seem to be incongruous with the truth.

MANY incongruous images greet visitors to London 's Soho district, thecentreof the city'sboomingadult-entertainment industry.

He lowered the level of his incongruous falsetto voice.

A heterogeneous, often incongruous mixture of elements.

To Stanovich, however, there is nothing incongruous about it.

The duffel coat looked incongruous with the black dress she wore underneath.

The incongruous design is a compromise between high tech and early American.

not to incite any incongruous behavior against us.

A fur coat is incongruous with a bathing suit.

Women wear headscarves, street names are in Malay and there are several mosques, all of which makes Oceania House all the more incongruous.

It seems incongruous that somebody can own a mobile phone, yet has to waste hours queuing for drinking water.

The modern building looks incongruous in that quaint old village.

The state or quality of being incongruous.

Yet a HK$157bn ($20bn) market capitalisation, just shy of 10 times book value, looks increasingly incongruous.

You incongruous Old Woman of Smyrna!

The result has been as vivid and incongruous as spilt guts on virgin snow.

a plan incongruous with reason.

This car is. . . incongruous. It doesn't make sense.

Is it not incongruous to fashion a 10-year deficit reduction package which adds stimulus at the start?

"I was 11 years old, " he says, in his gravelly voice that carries an incongruous hint of Brooklyn (Gosling is Canadian).

In Japan, this is incongruous.

absurd-- Ridiculously incongruous or unreasonable

the incongruous proportions of a building

his incongruous behavior at his father's funeral