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incongruities

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Plural of incongruity

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That it does is just another of the incongruities of this exhibition.

"A culture forged in the ancient East that developed in the modern West, and a theology founded in divine election whose adherents have been targeted for genocide such incongruities tickle the modern Jewish imagination," explains Ms Wisse.

There are incongruities: Saudis are about twice as rich per person as Bulgarians.

The result is a collection that delights in eccentric incongruities.

Despite the gaping differences, not to say incongruities, between some of these, the assumption was that they would provide reasonably cohesive support for the peace policy that Mr Barak has pledged to pursue.The Likud had been rejected early on, on the grounds that its hardline positions on Palestine could not be reconciled with Mr Barak's peace policy.

THE headquarters of Kopenhagen Fur is an exercise in incongruities.

But in telling the story of his life, Ms Hughes-Hallett deftly unpicks the strands that compose and ultimately resolve these incongruities.

But they are also creatures of fantasy, bearing only a distant resemblance to the animals the naturalist observes, and they are amusing because the poet skillfully exploits the incongruities between the animal and the human elements they embody.

Comic verse thrives on the melodious union of incongruities, such as the "cabbages and kings" in Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter," and particularly on the contrast between lofty form and flat-footed content.

As had been the case at the time of the French codification (1804), there was a desire in Germany to reconcile the vast incongruities in the law among different towns and territories.

There were bizarre incongruities, such as the reality of a war being fought, street by street, in parts of the east, and toy combat helicopters being sold on the souvenir stalls of central Kiev.

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