Sentence examples for At incongruous from inspiring English sources

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I could have done without the stabs at incongruous modern comedy, as when King Hildebrand's soldiers break into a tap-dance routine.

Some presidential elections are decided at incongruous moments.

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A Benedictine monk in flowing robes and dark glasses must have looked as incongruous at Signals Gallery, the Institute of Contemporary Arts and Houédard's other avant-garde haunts, as an authority on the beat movement would have seemed in the 16th-century calm of Prinknash Abbey.

"I'm a big Duke fan now," he said as everybody laughed at this incongruous basketball conversion.

I laugh at the incongruous size of him, sticking to his stomach and escaping from the springing hair below.

It didn't seem at all incongruous beside the El Grecos and the Goyas and the Velasquezes".

Looking askance at the incongruous blend of the Kremlin's will and the openness prized by Silicon Valley, they refer jokingly to the new city as Cupertino-2.

On almost every page, you encounter a phrase or sentence that sits at an incongruous angle to what has gone before.

South Park puts you at the incongruous crossroads between the Portland Art Museum (1219 SW Park Avenue, 503-226-2811; www.portlandartmuSaks Fifth Avenues Fifth Avenue (850 SW Fifth Avenue, 503-226-3200; www.comsfifthavenue.com).com

In one of his famous books of photographs, he raged against the "hordes of careless people who throng the British Museum" and "smile thoughtlessly" at the "incongruous quaintness" of the Egyptian antiquities "and, in England, their unintelligible grandeur".

The mood among the people gathered was so gentle, so calm and so welcoming, that, when the first notes of "Tiny Dancer" emerged from the sound system, the song didn't seem at all incongruous.

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