This incongruous detail, and others in Ms. Hamilton's work, evoke the squishiness involved in butchering.

A race track might seem an odd setting for a religious event, and there were incongruous details here and there.

Lemony Snicket frequently explains words and analogies in incongruous detail.

He would leave nothing undeveloped, and thus drowned out of sight of land amid the multitude of crying and incongruous details.

It was decorated in 2009 by students from Fairfield School, who created a mural of Victorian characters with incongruous details such as mobile phones, sunglasses and funny hats.

Such incongruous details are prodigally scattered throughout Mr. Gummerman's stories, details that lend his tales a strange, almost surreal texture.

He added incongruous details, "such as flamingos in Maine and Viking ships in Florida," to his work.

His eye can spot the incongruous detail that undermines self-presentation.

Reading these stories, it's clear that Ms. Bainbridge has a dry, dark-humored wit as well as a sharp eye for incongruous details.

With a delicate touch, Worsel lifted Flame off the floor, and Arrow-22 monotonously began describing a certain location by rather incongruous details.