Dr. Brothers quickly saw that the show prized incongruous matches of contestant and subject: the straight-backed Marine officer who was an expert on gastronomy; the cobbler who knew all about opera.
Intent on creating similarly incongruous matches, Ms. Albright next headed to East Seventh Street at the corner of Third Avenue, home of Surma, the Ukrainian gift shop, where racks that were clotted with farmer's daughter shirts made her wax ecstatic.
And yet there are dozens of lines on this album that are worth saving, in which Eminem makes incongruous words match through sense or sound.
Whereas modernist music emphasized structural and stylistic integrity, postmodern music is a polystylistic hybrid, mingling and matching incongruous elements with a heavy dose of irony -- just like film music.
As with all mashup projects, it's one thing having the idea to match two incongruous groups, and quite another to make it work.
The night sky was filled with colour and cordite, but the pomp and circumstance felt as incongruous as the pre-match light show, set against a sky of duck-egg blue.
It can be hard to tell if certain incongruous sequences — a house party, a rugby match, an orgy at a sauna — are taking place in the past, the future or someone's imagination.
In the second half of the season they went on a remarkable run, winning 14 out of 17 matches, yet their fantastic achievement still feels slightly incongruous, not least to Magath himself.
And it seemed incongruous when, last Friday, a judge released a key suspect in the mass European match-fixing affair.
The element of the incongruous points in the direction of the grotesque, which implies an admixture of elements that do not match.
