Sentence examples for incongruous setting from inspiring English sources

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Alli's former MK Dons youth team-mate Brendan Galloway, who is also 19, is another product from this same rather incongruous setting.

Monumental shades of the past Although the great cities of the Mayan civilisation were built inland, you'll find isolated examples of their buildings scattered among the new monuments to tourism: Playacar, for instance, is the rather incongruous setting for the ruined temples of Xaman-Ha.

So it fell to Mr. Biden to register America's complaints in the somewhat incongruous setting of a Champagne toast.

Call me naive, but isn't a five-star hotel a slightly incongruous setting in which to discuss a development strategy?

"I enjoy meeting people, I enjoy speaking," she told reporters after her appearance here, which was in the somewhat incongruous setting of a Smashburger fast-food restaurant.

You can do anything with the story, place it in any exotic, futuristic or incongruous setting, as long as the gods and demigods have recognizably human dimensions.

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"Someone in marketing thought that was what you'd see if you saw through the camera... such an incongruous set of images".

As the wonderfully erudite blogger The Self-Styled Siren put it in her powerful attack on the book, "Urwand is tainting an incongruous set of films with the Nazi seal of approval".

The kidnapping was the culmination of a morning of checkpoints, gunfire, bleeding casualties, a minefield and a traffic accident – all part of the Safer Edge Heat (hostile environment awareness for humanitarians) training in a beautiful but incongruous Cotswolds setting.

On to an incongruous catwalk set that mixed rose wallpaper with dizzying flashing spotlights, Cavalli sent models dressed, as he put it, for "a world suspended between innocence and seduction".

The cheating urn is a surprising (and I like surprising) mix of pretty plates nipped from American flag plates (a fun part of the process is discovering plates), shiny gems, tiles and mirrors — as incongruous a setting as I imagine Rielle Hunter's house may have been for John Edwards.

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