Sentence examples for incongruous position from inspiring English sources
Karzai was in the incongruous position of defending his record as a steadfast ally in the war on drugs while expressing horror at the reports of American abuse.
But it would also put the federal government in the incongruous position of owning one or more insurance companies and competing with insurers in the private sector.
The meeting was a watershed for Mr. Zadran, who spent months in the incongruous position of being an American ally, with 600 of his fighters on the American payroll for anti-terrorist operations, an arrangement the Americans recently abrogated, even while he was defying the Kabul government.
Esther Newton writes, "Camp humor is a system of laughing at one's incongruous position instead of crying," and I think that is pretty apt.
But however incongruous her position, Madame Albanel is spot-on: no one – not even his sworn ideological enemies – can deny Debord's importance.
She positions herself fetchingly on the Mongolian steppes and becomes an incongruous spot of glamour against the stark stretches of breathtaking nothingness.
This incongruous situation is a great example of asynchronous competition.
That bookmakers regard Hibs as the favourites may seem incongruous, given their position in the second tier and Ross County well established in the top flight.
This position may seem incongruous with my personal crusade to minimize fossil fuel use, a desire rooted in scientific understanding that climate change is a real threat and that tar sands oil produces higher GHG emissions than many alternatives.
The sequence was brave, but also clumsily handled, exploitative and incongruous; however, it did place the player in a position where many felt they genuinely had to weigh up their moral proclivities with the demands of the gameplay mission.
Techniques of distortion and incongruous juxtaposition expressed either the ideological position of the director or dramatist or the state of mind of the protagonist, or both.
