The incongruous effects, as in her "Moses" book, point to a failure of technique, an aural exhaustion.
(Later, on the booty call lament Ain't the Beep, another implied swear is wittily obscured by an incongruous keyboard sound effect).
The effect is incongruous: she looks like a girl whose prom date has stood her up.
The shifting of affect, from mind to limb, is not only absurdly incongruous, it has the effect of holding the emotion in question at arm's (or leg's) length.
Thus, IL-3 appears to represent a special case, being the only IL whose effect is incongruous: protective for diabetes and noxious for the heart.
The cascading effects, so incongruous to the narrative velleity of music on a summer day (during the Battle of the Somme, which is perhaps encoded in the sombre gray), both fascinate and estrange.
But where The Cube is austere and intimidating, Reflex borrows Total Wipeout's slapstick shtick, piling on the incongruous music and sound effects and bonkersing itself into a kooky, DayGlo, safe space beyond meaningful criticism.
The effect is deeply incongruous, like Robert Mugabe turning up on an episode of Big Cook Little Cook and making a dragon out of a croissant.
The effect is curiously incongruous; while works by the 20th-century artists do represent various sorts of flora and fauna, they have far more to do with possibilities of formalist abstraction than with naturalistic observation (Johnson).
These painters used representational but incongruous imagery to produce disquieting effects on the viewer.
