Sentence examples for incongruous characters from inspiring English sources

Like "Central Station," "Midnight" is about an unlikely encounter between two incongruous characters -- in this case a relatively affluent woman who makes her living helping others and a representative of the urban demimonde.

Since this is a contemporary thriller with a relatively short running time, Crowe's character is actually a set of incongruous characters all rolled into one, held together by his strong persona and acting skills.

To some Polaroid House guests, Mr. Silverman seems an incongruous character in a room full of revelers many generations his junior, worthy of the same attention one would give an elderly relative at a family function.

Orton's writing was marked by epigrammatic wit and an incongruous polish, his characters reacting with comic propriety to the scandalous and disturbing situations in which they found themselves involved.

Her timidity and ineptitude behind the wheel seem incongruous in the character of a daredevil, but, she added, "I have always staged my fears as a way to transcend them".

In the case of Incongruous Non-Conjunctions, a character, incongruous with the prior expectations established by the sequence, is added to the scene.

Whether we're seeking wisdom from Kobayashi or Mother Teresa or the Shackleton Expedition, business-oriented humans seem to react strongly to lessons from unconventional characters and incongruous contexts.

It was decorated in 2009 by students from Fairfield School, who created a mural of Victorian characters with incongruous details such as mobile phones, sunglasses and funny hats.

Last week, "Gossip Girl" swung for a too-literal pastiche of "The End of the Affair" and missed the mark completely, clumsily trying to cram our characters into incongruous situations simply to service the borrowed plot.

The characters were quite incongruous [she played a prostitute].

Hence the incongruous cigarettes in mouths of characters such as Mr. Darcy.