Sentence examples for incongruous expectations from inspiring English sources

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There is no reason to exclude that incongruous expectations of the wages accessible abroad – to make the most obvious of examples – may have affected many individual decisions to leave.

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(If we are listening to a joke for the second time, of course, there is a sense in which we expect the incongruous punch line, but it still violates our ordinary expectations).

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

20 Habermas concedes this point; however, he points out that there remains a possibility of 'dissonant cases' 21 in which the parental expectation implicit in the enhanced trait is incongruous with the child's desires.

For those who have followed Ms. Gilman's career from its abrupt beginnings at a tiny storefront theater in an unfashionable Chicago suburb, this nervous talk of high expectations and answers to large social issues seems incongruous.

But here, standing all of 4 feet 11 inches tall, it seemed incongruous, almost unfair, to burden this 10th grader in braces with the newly improvised set of expectations, now the result of those unmet.

Gloriously incongruous.

An incongruous scene?

Other scenes were incongruous.

Ridiculously incongruous questions.

Pretty lame, incongruous stuff.

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