This incongruence makes it all the more troubling for Abbott as he prepares to meet Obama.
It is such incongruence that is at the heart of the newly emerging market-driven morality: sponsors do not want to be associated with corruption and hence recoil from it.Sport's relationship with its sponsors is therefore starting to change: if sport cannot clean up its act, then its commercial partners and sponsors will do the job instead.
Despite the apparent stylistic incongruence resulting from the two-century gap between compositions, the combination seems to work: both composers' works play well in the bright, astringent tone favoured by Pi-Hsien Chen, and the Scarlatti sonatas act like palate-cleansers between courses of a rich feast.
There's an incongruence between what we should be seeing (a holiday photo) and what we are unexpectedly witnessing (a curious squirrel standing in the foreground) that makes us search for meaning.
"I'm a master of seven different games: chess, Scrabble, bridge, poker, backgammon," Hoffmann said, untroubled by the numerical incongruence.
There is a seeming incongruence between the tender Valentine's-pegged installation and Emin's provocative early artworks — "My Bed," for instance, for which she displayed the actual site of her post-breakup meltdown, complete with stained sheets, cigarette butts, liquor bottles, and dirty panties; or "Everyone I Ever Slept With 1963-1995," a tent appliquéd with relevant names.
Zambia's labor and social security minister, Fackson Shamenda, waved off the incongruence, telling me the new leadership had spurred the miners into action to protest their conditions.
There is, to be certain, an element of irony, in the sense of an incongruence or disruption of expectations, in Krafft's combination of dainty decorative objects and disturbing political iconography, and in series like his "Forgiveness" perfume bottles and soap bars, whose logo is the swastika, or his china reliquaries made from clay mixed with cremated human remains.
The music doesn't change much, and grew tiring after an hour on Thursday, but it's an easily graspable, quickly seductive idea: incongruence in sound, having it both ways and making it work.
In art, this type of incongruence between reality and expectations is often used to generate a comic effect, as when the powerful C.E.O. who is feared by all his underlings and appears to respect no authority gets a call from his mother and, with the intonation of a 10-year old schoolboy, says, "Yes, Mom".
