Sentence examples for incongruous elements from inspiring English sources

Sometimes it was the stylized, seemingly incongruous elements in this activity that most sharply summoned Benjy's dissociative worldview.

His works are often undated, and they typically combine incongruous elements: flamingos in Maine, Viking ships in Carolina harbors.

I'd like to see it restored as much as possible to its original status and the incongruous elements removed.

It's a funny reference, but it's also a clue to how she came to build her new sound, employing culturally incongruous elements.

Her choreography was a kind of version in dance of what Salle was doing in painting: an unsettling yoking of incongruous elements.

The movie constantly moves back and forth between fidelity to the tired conventions of traditional westerns and undercutting them by mixing in ridiculous and incongruous elements.

You need some sort of incongruous element.

Yet strangely enough, the dances are often the most incongruous element in Mr. Clifton's bleakly drawn landscape.

For Joe, I think the distinction holds up well because his cartoons almost always have an incongruous element that the caption makes sense of.

My fourth and final choice focusses on the incongruous element in the painting that makes it worthy of a caption contest: namely, the barrier of fabric impeding the lovers' intimacy.

Saul Bellow, like any biographical subject, has feet of clay, knees of clay, hips of clay, but there is an incongruous element of resentment in Atlas's recording of his flaws.