Sentence examples for incompatible people from inspiring English sources

A Touch of Class, 1973 (dir, Melvin Frank Romanticcomedydy about a love affair between two incompatible people.

Back then, this seemed like a strange and necessary set-up, for two obviously incompatible people to live together.

But Alice grows on the reader with time, particularly when she becomes instrumental to the novel's overarching delight: the pleasure, perfected by Jane Austen, of watching two seemingly incompatible people gravitate inexorably toward each other.

Or as Dylan Matthews at Vox (or his sub-editor at least) phrased it, "Did OkCupid send a bunch of incompatible people on dates on purpose?" "No" is the pedantic answer, because OKCupid doesn't send anyone on dates.

We were just two completely incompatible people".

The modest Gottlieb resents Geiszler's arrogance and radical behavior; the duo echo the film's theme of incompatible people functioning together when the time comes.

May we take our stomped expectations, our crumpled wish lists, our boiling blood and our lanced dreams, and still have the vision to seek a future in which two curiously similar, wholly incompatible peoples can be themselves, both secure, both self-governing, both truly independent.

As psychologist Robert Sternberg puts it: "wisdom and egocentricity are incompatible... people who have gotten where they are by not taking other people's interests into account or even by actively thwarting the interests of others... would not be viewed as wise".

The airline had intended to switch to a new kind of grease, but was apparently using new and old, and the two were incompatible; 88 people died.

The essential meaning of the phenomenon is understood as 'a tangle of inability and unwillingness to connect to one's actual life', characterized by a permanently lived tension: daily experiences seem incompatible with people's expectations of life and their idea of whom they are.

"These two visions of development are not incompatible, and reasonable people can cast their lot with either one," Woolcock wrote.