Sentence examples for for incongruous from inspiring English sources

Maybe the show was going for incongruous.

It makes for incongruous viewing: one moment you're watching mud-caked athletes chatting about some bark they just found, the next you're staring into the nostrils of an Iguana.

The left anterior temporal and prefrontal processing reflected in the N400m embodies the initial semantic analysis and is greatest for incongruous endings.

Means ± SEMs were as follows: 837.4 ± 112 ms for the funny sentences rated as funny, 788.2 ± 90 ms for congruous sentences rated as not funny, and 765.4 ± 108 ms for incongruous sentences rated as not funny.

At the same time, the lack of difference between transparent compounds (both high and low frequency) and pseudo-compounds speaks against a purely combinatorial processing route (which would predict a syntactic MMN advantage for incongruous combinations of the pseudo-compounds: transparent < pseudo-compounds).

This was the real thing, an ancient village where nothing seemed to have changed for centuries except for the incongruous intrusion of a 160-passenger aerial tramway built a decade ago between Vaujany and the Alpe d'Huez ski area.

But although meager crowds were not uncommon for milestones — just 23,154 showed up at Yankee Stadium to see Roger Maris's 61st homer in 1961 — the lack of fanfare for Clemente seems incongruous for a player so revered.

Ms. DeGeneres keeps reaching for fresh, incongruous metaphors.

Some faulted it on aesthetic grounds, for its incongruous spiffiness in a district of old warehouses.

A bearded photographer angled for an incongruous blend of uptown couture and downtown street grit.

The British summer this year was sunnier than normal, but still made for an incongruous backdrop to some of my researches.