Sentence examples for incongruous touch from inspiring English sources

Ms. Jaffrey, the best-known cast member, conveys a natural aristocratic elegance that adds an incongruous touch of class to the slums of Bombay.

The "cloak of green Cabbage-leaves" is the final, incongruous touch, adding further concealment for an already heavily concealed figure – and another yuck factor to delight the nursery readership.

In the video, the barefoot boy is clad in shorts and a cartoon-emblazoned T-shirt — just like any kindergartner anywhere on a hot summer's evening — lending the chaotic events an incongruous touch of childhood familiarity, right down to his slightly pigeon-toed pose.    .

His house was built in the same primitive style as those in San Pacho, but with incongruous touches: windows made of wine bottles, a fresco copied from Gauguin.

Into the two hundred and one words of this sentence, resourcefully translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Marías crams many tiny triumphs of imagination and elaboration: a slip in the shower enhanced by a locked door that protects no one; decapitation made oddly worse for happening on vacation; an incongruous postmortem shave made comically touching by the phrase "aesthetic pity" — piedad estética.

** Into the two hundred and one words of this sentence, resourcefully translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Marías crams many tiny triumphs of imagination and elaboration: a slip in the shower enhanced by a locked door that protects no one; decapitation made oddly worse for happening on vacation; an incongruous postmortem shave made comically touching by the phrase "aesthetic pity" — piedad estética.

Hence Wellington's solicitousness for his own figure; and hence the package of clothes sent on the eve of his hanging by John Haigh, the murderer who dissolved four women in baths of sulphuric acid and who wished to appear in the right clothes when installed in the Chamber of Horrors.Waxworks also allow the most incongruous people to get close and touch.

Mr. Russel's cooking is deft and modern, almost incongruous with the room's more Teutonic touches.

If that happened to be Ronnie he did look rather incongruous being so short with his long greatcoat almost touching the ground.

A heated Republican debate over the ethics of aggressive business tactics — and the broader implication that Mr. Romney was out of touch with the lives of ordinary people — seemed incongruous for a party that is traditionally unapologetic about its embrace of corporate wealth creation.

Particularly in an incongruous séance scene, when Jonathan's long-lost mum gets in touch, the boundaries are intriguingly porous between the characters in the musical; the (fictional) characters of Mr Swallow, Mr Goldsworth and Jonathan; and real-life Mohammed, Elms and Hodgson.