incongruousness

I therefore want to draw particular attention to the incongruousness of our having such a need to catch up in the social sphere.

Today railways in Italy continue to experience the difficulties and incongruousness inherited from past times.

"I was immediately struck by the improbability, the incongruousness, of this pre-Raphaelite medieval world," he said.

The absurdity, the utter incongruousness in this night place of wind and grass acted, somehow, to loosen him.

Not ghastly in itself--in fact it was just the incongruousness that made it seem worse than anything else.

The incongruousness of it.

Ms. Gaitskill writes so radiantly about violent self-loathing that the very incongruousness of her language has shocking power.

Movie viewers laugh at the incongruousness of a Hollywood star driving a pedestrian vehicle like an Oldsmobile mini-van.

Though his wide-eyed clowning and her movie-queen composure would mix strangely in a more serious story, their incongruousness suits this lightweight one very well.

His central themes appear to be the incongruousness of moral experience within modern society, the collapse or eradication of identity, and non-spiritual or secular redemption.

He occasionally alluded to the circumstances in which they had formerly met, and remarked the incongruousness between the religion and habits of a Spaniard, with those of a native of Britain.

Just as the incongruousness of this is sinking in, the camera pans over and there is Count Basie's entire orchestra - music stands and all - sitting out in the middle of nowhere, playing away.

With astonishing incongruousness in the bleakest of desert lands, a soft breeze turns over small whitecaps on a huge reservoir fed by the Euphrates as waterfalls splash over greenery growing under the spillways.

Mukpo describes his own internal conflict between his Buddhist side and his Western side, lamenting both the seeming incongruousness of the practice when he became a teen and wanted to fit in, and the pressure and obligation he has felt because he bears the designation of tulku.