Sentence examples for incongruous statement from inspiring English sources

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That seems an incongruous statement.

Colleagues were puzzled because among the scribbles was the incongruous statement, written in English, "I love you Jennifer".

Then she pauses briefly before continuing, as if filing away that incongruous statement for further consideration later, when the camera that wants to capture only the sunny side of things is off.

Rephrasing Gordon Gekko in the movie Wall Street, I'll go as far as making the seemingly incongruous statement, "disagreement is good".

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The first four tweets were seemingly odd statements incongruous with the celebrities' usual behaviour and made no reference to Snickers.

Which might make my next statement seem incongruous.

Last statements seem incongruous with a modern execution process that prizes predictability and efficiency.

The result is something much richer than simply bringing a Rauschenberg artwork to life; it is an effort to see our times as they were seen by this artist, who over his long career has shown how junk can be beautiful and how juxtaposition, the mixing of incongruous elements, can be a statement.

In the world of Instagram, where images are repurposed and given new contexts by adding incongruous phrases, rappers can make statements about other rappers through (albeit fairly heavy-handed) code.

Which makes this statement from Chairman Michael Callen Michael Callen incongruous: "In this offering, we are targeting our core investor base, the long-term holders of our stock, who have been loyal to Ambac".

His statement suggests the relation of the comic to the incongruous.

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