Sentence examples for incongruous context from inspiring English sources

They impose a structure, pace – and an incongruous context – that his self-pitying breakdown-comedy purposefully lacks.

In the Washington Post, Gene Weingarten described the performance as a "test of whether, in an incongruous context, ordinary people would recognize genius".

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.

Though she enjoyed the a cappella cover, Brissey found it incongruous in context, opining that Glee best performances are those linked to the storylines, allowing viewers to invest in their message.

He called it a "nice performance", but incongruous in context, a concern shared by Erica Futterman of Rolling Stone, who preferred Salling's rendition of "Only the Good Die Young" in the episode "Grilled Cheesus".

Lea Michele's rendition of "What I Did for Love" from A Chorus Line was described by Robert Bianco of USA Today as putting "every amateur musical performance on every TV talent show this year to shame", though both Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times and Todd VanDerWerff of The A.V. Club found it incongruous in context.

Her nudity and breezy confrontationalism are more incongruous in this context, adding to the thrill.

There were some nice Eastern strings but they sounded incongruous in the context of the song.

It's incongruous in this context that Spielberg leaves out the most famous blunder.

Such mainstream work seems gratingly incongruous in this context, but elsewhere interesting dialogues between insiders and outsiders emerge.

You were expecting some other word, and "Vorshtein" was surprising and incongruous in that context, just as it was when Elinoff used it as a category of humor.