Sentence examples for something incongruous from inspiring English sources

In parody, it is the interposition of something familiar with something incongruous.

There is something incongruous about interviewing Owen Sheers amid the rooftop haunts of Piccadilly.

So there is something incongruous about victory celebrations, particularly if they are contrived.

In this transformation of the main theme there is something incongruous.

There was something incongruous about these progressions issuing from the thick fingers of a man in sweats.

Without wishing to disrespect one of London's loveliest venues, there's something incongruous about Jay-Z gracing the Roundhouse.

But there's something funnily incongruous about young New Yorkers going through their growing pains in rustic teepees.

There was something strangely incongruous in this Oriental figure framed in the commonplace doorway of a third-rate suburban dwelling-house.

There was something wonderfully incongruous about turning these futurists and their toys loose on the grounds of a derelict military base.

The intention seems only occasionally to pass comment on the original; it's more about substituting a (usually) heartfelt lyric with something nerdy, incongruous or trivial.

The subject turned to heroes, and at one point he picked one of his fluffy teddy bears -- something seemingly incongruous, given the way the conversation had been going.