So there's an added incongruity when it's used by terrorists.
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That was not the only moment of awkwardness or incongruity.
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It is this gap, this incongruity, that I find captivating.
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I noticed the incongruity when I used the outgoing system recently.
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The rest of the core cast isn't immune to the incongruity.
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Look at the incongruity of his existence in this one moment.
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Miss Meatface is a character whose entire world thrives on incongruity.
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While the NFL represents a divided nation, the NBA embraces incongruity.
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There's nothing snarky or spoofy about them — just a playful incongruity.
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The incongruity of those two worlds colliding seemed really interesting to us.
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That's what makes the one incongruity among the cover stars stand out.
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Not even the CEO would get a suite or a similar incongruity.
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There is a perfect balance between them, the golden ratio for human incongruity.
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Mr. Johnson seemed to acknowledge some incongruity between the man and the moment.
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It was the kind of incongruity that Greenhagen regularly experienced in her job.
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What holds them together is their insight into the incongruity of early memories.
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Adding incongruity to the proceedings on Thursday, the speaker was Trinity's vicar, the Rev.
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There's some incongruity between reggae's reflections on poverty and American rappers' boasts about wealth.
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The challenges this poses are about more than just incongruity in how we view elections.
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As time goes on, people change, and the incongruity makes for humor and, sometimes, frustration.
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Guadagnino's appreciation for incongruity began when he was a child and continued through his education.
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The incongruity — conceptual European fashion immediately followed by all-American spring break style — was disorienting.
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I recognized the incongruity of that and yet the great forward strides it could yield.
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Instead of deleting the tweet or commenting on its incongruity, Farrow dug into the moment.
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An Iranian journalist, Reza Dehaki, a supporter of his country's hunger strikes, noted that incongruity.
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I'd argue that our job as adults is to live with and accommodate that incongruity.
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I was 14 then, and the political incongruity that night was impossible not to feel.
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Ms. Posin's choreography — largely conventional ballet, adeptly arranged and accessorized with Arctic hula — settles for incongruity.
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As in "Blue Night" and "Path to the Sea," there is something meaningful about the incongruity.
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This incongruity is the key to the movie, but it's the key to an empty box.
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Dock to Dish represents a grassroots attempt to address this incongruity by emphasizing supply instead of demand.
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Several of those students, and their critics, have noted the incongruity of teenagers getting involved in politics.
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Not that this seeming incongruity was the only aspect of the night that deserved such a response.
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What makes the theme sound unique, however, is actually a small incongruity in the tune's harmonic structure.
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I laughed because I'm unapologetic about my conspicuous use of electronics here, despite their incongruity with my surroundings.
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There's the incongruity of the context — what cop could summon this much alacrity in a facility this drab?
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With a light flurry of snow falling outside, the incongruity of her surroundings was not lost on her.
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And ethics experts seemed unable to overstate the incongruity of a sitting president's son drumming up business overseas.
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What explains this glaring moral incongruity on the part of so many Westerners when it comes to Iran?
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In the film, the incongruity of stuffy, dressed-up philistines making like Jamaican backup dancers was a hoot.
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Outdoor sculpture should not be an addendum but an interruption, an incongruity, a hole piercing the day's fabric.
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Such imbalance remains a striking incongruity for Broadway, where an estimated 67 percent of the audience is women.
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They are scandalized by incongruity, they are scandalized by corruption, and as part of this corruption ... sexual abuse.
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The incongruity has brought her much public scrutiny — and intense, often vaguely misogynistic, public criticism, as well as publicity.
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This incongruity has ushered in greater insecurity in a country that prides itself on its equitable social market system.
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But you can understand his reasons and still marvel at the incongruity of his remarks in the present moment.
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Another incongruity has to do with the lack of evidence implicating any bison at all in transmission of brucellosis.
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But that does not explain away a glaring mathematical incongruity, nor does it justify an abdication of scholarly responsibility.
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As one associate of Simeone's noted, there is an unavoidable incongruity in playing underdog soccer in an aristocrat's home.
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In contrast with the spontaneity of the modern scenes, these flashbacks are slightly candied, with the incongruity of dreams.
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Two of the many comics in "Drawn Together" at David Zwirner nod directly at the incongruity of this setting.
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This financial incongruity has fuelled a sentiment among many Italians that the French are buying up the country's economic patrimony.
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For many, the postponement recommendation this past week was the latest incongruity in a law that they have found exclusionary.
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Indeed any of his cities, built to scale, might be too much: too much strangeness, too much incongruity, too much colour.
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The movie waits to reveal Esmail at his day job, for instance, so we feel the incongruity with his night life.
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And the reason it is jarring to some folks is this incongruity of the content of the tweet and the format.
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The incongruity between the life I looked like I was living and my actual life ended up making me feel much worse.
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I'm thinking particularly of Will and his crew's ugly, slow-motion street brawl (scored, with admirable incongruity, to Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street").
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Word of the Day : the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate _________ The word incongruity has appeared in 28 articles on nytimes.
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But it's not just the incongruity that's funny; it's the characters and associations that Baldwin's distinctive voice instantly brings to Boss Baby's persona.
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The changes will take effect at both news outlets on June 1 (which explains the incongruity of "Internet" being capitalized throughout this article).
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There was a moment of incongruity when it turned out that, in the middle of all this lavishness, we couldn't open the curtains.
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"Every year, unfortunately, there are way, way more refugees than any country can take," Mr. Kozak said when asked about the seeming incongruity.
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A lone monkey in a scarlet bowtie huddles in a corner, the only one who appears aware of the serious incongruity of the arrangement.
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Other moments that stand out are those that expose the awkward—and sometimes hilarious—incongruity of still being alive in the face of death.
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In fact, if the incongruity between how the two Trumps spent their mornings doesn't knock you for a loop, you just aren't paying attention.
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Funny Business Finding the right book of comedy may be trickier given the incongruity between your son's youth and his more grown-up tastes.
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It hews more closely to the absurdist tradition, which uses incongruity and exaggeration to suggest some midnight-dark truths about human life and endeavor.
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This incongruity flows partly from the fact that her caricature was always just that, a partisan construct Republicans used to fire up their base.
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There is something beautiful and fitting about that incongruity, and also about the presence of so many actors we've seen in other Scorsese films.
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At once a buddy-cop plot, a fish-out-of-water comedy and a spy thriller, Bayard and Herzog's adventures become exercises in incongruity.
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In an interview, he said the racial incongruity of the Pistons' uprooting was not something that jumped out at him as he grew older.
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Whether it's a sense of discomfort or incongruity, or feelings of the divine or supernatural, I'm interested in pursuing the sensations born from these interrelationships.
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It's impossible to ignore the incongruity of partying to electronic music on the beach of a volcanic island, on the edge of a nature reserve.
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The incongruity between the king and queen's support for the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists and the government's willingness to help incite against dissidents here is symptomatic.
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If he saw any incongruity in criticizing those without power while he was enjoying a day watching professional golfers, he made no mention of it.
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A self-described "lifelong Democrat," the New York-raised Schimpf is one of Anduril's five cofounders and the most obvious incongruity in the company's upper ranks.
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Wearing a paint-splattered brown mechanic's suit, crowned with her signature Frida Kahlo-esque braids and vibrant coral lips, she is a portrait of elegant incongruity.
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They saw no incongruity in their decision to wed — they were flexible, adaptable humans, reshaping an institution to their needs, rather than the other way around.
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But as I talked with Eosphoros and Bautista and other students I began to wonder whether they were noticing an ideological incongruity some older people weren't.
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It's difficult to know where this goes, but this incongruity between 21st-century science and 19th-century politics is what a Marxist might call a contradiction.
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This striking incongruity should be a call to action for our best and brightest minds to re-engage and re-imagine our system of self-government.
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Far Cry 25 and 4 were so driven by their "insane" antagonists, and here it feels like Ubisoft quadrupled down, aiming for unpredictability and finding instead incongruity.
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The house has just been sold to Fosun, the Chinese conglomerate, and famously has been through a period of extreme turmoil, so perhaps the incongruity is understandable.
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And sure enough, as many expected, that incongruity produced friction between the two men numerous times on major foreign policy issues including North Korea, Iran, and Venezuela.
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An incongruity in Mr. Trump's tale is that Mr. Langer, though he lives in Florida, is a German citizen and cannot legally vote in the United States.
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A sad incongruity of caregiving is that patients often have a greater capacity for empathy than those of us going through our lives largely unencumbered by illness.
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In a statement, Connecticut Secretary of State Denise Merrill also pointed out the incongruity of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach serving as vice chair of the commission.
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The meme began as a joke that adult viewers rediscovering the show would share with one another on message boards, where it eventually became shorthand for narrative incongruity.
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China and Taiwan both consider themselves the legitimate government of China, an issue supposedly successfully buried in its incongruity 28503 years ago by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger.
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These days, many folks ascribe to some variation of the incongruity theory, the idea that humor occurs when people expect one thing to happen and something else occurs.
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The temperature was close to 90, and when a taxi drove past with an ad on its roof for a production of "The Nutcracker," the incongruity was jarring.
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An even more jarring, joke-like incongruity characterizes four placemat-size "arpilleras," the colorful wall-hangings documenting everyday brutalities, made by anonymous Chilean women during the Pinochet regime.
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I asked ATRA lawyer Cary Silverman of Shook Hardy if there's any incongruity between ATRA's ideological suspicion of class actions and its support of nationwide class action settlements.
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They have all since said that does not mean they support the deal that the city and state agreed to, but others have seized on the seeming incongruity.
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While contemplating this incongruity, Herculano-Houzel remembered a book she read a few years earlier: "Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human," by the Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangham.
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The widening incongruity between the products I used and the person I was meant that the nicer my life looked in a photograph, the worse it looked to me.
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That's what was so hypnotizing about The Los Angeles Times' putting photos of the 29 acting and directing nominees on its amazing and necessarily harsh Friday cover: the incongruity.
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Given the highly erratic behavior, strategic incongruity, and general unreliability of the US administration, reaching this level of strategic trust in the present context would be a tall order.
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But the ugly expression—as though he were flinching from a horror—did appear and was all the more striking because of its incongruity with his usual mild demeanor.
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In another incongruity, the invoice number on the September 2011 memo does not follow the chronological order of invoices from the 21st Century Foundation before and after that date.
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Much of Christie's unwaning appeal relies on incongruity—maleficence emerging in the most genteel of contexts, like strychnine in the tea—whereas the Thrombeys make no pretense of decency.
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It even acquired a new and essential incongruity, introducing a sweetness and warmth that made him more relatable to viewers who might have been alienated by his acerbic sensibility.
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They're counting on comic incongruity, the mismatch between a fast food chain and an irreverent public presence — and, most crucially, the mismatch between a corporation and a rap mixtape.
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In brief monologues introducing the topics, Mr. Ferguson uses the same irreverence and incongruity that worked so well on his late-night CBS talk show, which ended in December 2014.
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The USPS put a Getty Images photo of artist Robert S. Davidson's Las Vegas version of the sculpture on roughly 3.5 billion stamps before the incongruity was noticed in 2011.
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The short film "Simkin and the City," by Alexander Ekman, is an amusing stunt, playing on the incongruity of Mr. Simkin's exhibiting ballet-prince behavior on the streets of Manhattan.
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Docuseries director Joe Berlinger, who is also releasing a fictionalized account of Bundy's crimes starring Zac Efron, tells PEOPLE it's that incongruity about Bundy's character that he wanted to explore.
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By contrast, when the UK version last season featured a doctor, it sparked newspaper columns about the rare incongruity of a "solitary middle-class contestant" amid the working-class cast.
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I personally enjoy the mixture of 3D exploration and 2D spelunking, but there's also a danger of incongruity that none of the team's previous games have had to contend with.
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And the lineup of performers only increased the sense of incongruity: four virtuoso pianists from different parts of the world, joined by three dancers — one tap, one salsa, one flamenco.
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Just like his early pottery, Gauguin's prints, the subject of a wonderfully dark show at the Museum of Modern Art in 2014, make a virtue of accident, error, randomness, incongruity.
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The unbelievable incongruity of this time in which the nation is more in love with women's sports than ever before, you've got this White House doing this, it's really stunning.
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Is a person less fit to serve if he or she has a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria — significant distress over an incongruity between one's birth sex and gender identity?
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A history major and law student, Captain Murphy, then an Army specialist, appreciated the incongruity of trying to bring law and order to one of the birthplaces of written law.
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The incongruity of academia's reaction to Turkey's brutal crackdown on freedom versus the often fabricated crimes of which Israel is falsely accused, tells many of us what we already know.
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"I was in Kim's office and that's all that was there," Kourtney wrote in response to the fan on Twitter who pointed out the incongruity of Kourtney's words and actions.
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After I have spent some long time absorbed with the snails and their ways, occasionally, or, in fact, almost always, I am struck by the incongruity of the picture we present.
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There is a theory called the Benign Violation Theory, which posits that humor happens when you pair a transgression with something harmless, creating a structure in which to enjoy the incongruity.
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With unconscious incongruity, the country's foreign minister, Peter Szijjarto, angrily declared that "politics has raped European law and values," vowing that no one would be relocated to Hungary against its wishes.
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The photographs strike notes of dislocation or claustrophobia about which his human subjects look immune, as if they have already internalized incongruity to the extent that it is as normal as breathing.
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And yet, it was possible to muddle through, even as I reflected on the incongruity of becoming part of the work which I had travelled the length of the country to critique.
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The incongruity is heightened by the colors liberally applied by hand, creating in one instance a blue car with pink wheels and a green windshield, thus underscoring the fantasy associated with cars.
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One possible explanation for the apparent incongruity between Trump's desire to talk and Haley's push for silence is that the president has been persuaded this isolation will bring Pyongyang to the table.
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An airship of any size is not what one expects to see inside a building that's on the National Register of Historic Places, an incongruity which the artist is undoubtedly aware of.
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Ms. Masilo's choreography to that music is novel in its continual switch-hitting between bits of ballet and African dance, but apart from the comedy of seeming incongruity, the jumbling isn't particularly expressive.
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Barr tried to explain away the incongruity in his writings by claiming his October 2016 piece was based on a mistaken belief that Attorney General Loretta Lynch had authorized Comey to act independently.
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In the opinion of criminologist Philip Stinson, who like Yeagar is unconnected to the case but who analyzed footage from Chris' interviews, the incongruity of him speaking to reporters likely has a simple explanation.
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Andrew Alperstein, CNN legal analyst and Baltimore attorney, puts the incongruity this way: "It is quite common that there great differences between public opinion and the admissible evidence in a criminal court" he said.
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Any interaction is almost immediately commodified as a painstakingly-manicured photo op, shot in a manner that minimizes the incongruity between Zuckerberg's indoor kid complexion and the backdrop of some blighted Rust Belt town.
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The suspect disabled the home's security system to let police inside, prosecutors said at Monday's hearing, seemingly emphasizing the incongruity of that with his original story of a masked man who had gotten inside.
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MATTHIAS KISTLERLondon There is a historical incongruity that illuminates the ignorance of white supremacists chanting anti-Semitic slogans while protesting against the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee ("White fight", August 19th).
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The punctuation marks as part of the title are a self-aware nod to the incongruity of marrying the location, known for its allegiance to hoodies, Tevas and T-shirts, to a fashion event.
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But despite his ideological incongruity with the EPA, Pruitt has turned out to be controversial for a host of reasons having little to do with the deregulatory policies he's favored at a regulatory agency.
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"It is an incongruity I hide from the other rich, bespectacled Indian doctors of my cohort, entering middle age like me, trying to stay fit like me, suburban and Midwestern like me," he writes.
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Waldman shows great honesty as he explores his own reactions to Palestinian patients and the incongruity of serving as an Israeli Army medic during Operation Cast Lead while simultaneously treating cancer patients from Gaza.
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"He had a circular puncture to the chin, extensive lacerations in his mouth, multiple disrupted lower incisors, and bony incongruity of the left mandible," the doctors who treated the boy wrote in their report.
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For Takagi, this suggests the cats use sound to predict whether an object would fall out when the container was turned over, and puzzled over the incongruity when the conditions didn't match that causal logic.
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"Pointing out the incongruity of pay at the top and pay at the bottom provokes a reaction because it so violates of our innate sense of fairness it is impossible not to wince," she said.
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"There is an incongruity of the EPA's positions, on one hand praising the success of the Clean Air Act in improving air quality while on another day calling the law a job killer," he said.
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Taken together Snowden revealed an incongruity between what the public wants done in its name (or to the public itself) and what the government is doing, making him the totem for an international privacy movement.
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Mr. Mitnick, though, said there were times when even he, for all his years helping wealthy New Yorkers navigate the tax code, found it difficult to face the incongruity of his work for Mr. Trump.
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It is an incongruity, a curved shape in a terminal that is mostly long lines and sharp angles, 500 pounds of living-room furniture in a place where the prevailing style is Late Rush Hour.
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I couldn't help laughing too — not at the gender incongruity but at the notion that a man whose tools had been a pickax and dynamite should now so radically change his relation to the world.
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Many will be unapologetic — and quick — to criticize Enninful for his predictable cover choices for his second and third issues, especially for their incongruity with the path he'd laid out for the magazine with his first.
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Until Trump makes an unambiguous personal statement against Putin, instead of running to his defense, the incongruity of his words and his administration's actions will render any Russia-related policy, no matter how well-executed, impotent.
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A study published on Monday in Nature Geoscience suggests that this incongruity could be explained if the Moon was formed as a result of around 20 smaller impacts, instead of one colossal dust-up between worlds.
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That those on the right seemed to be warming to Russia was not seen as a particularly unusual development, though some joked about the incongruity of the left putting such faith in the Central Intelligence Agency.
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The incongruity of squaring how good the match was without yielding to the pressure of declaring it an all-timer caused exactly the sort of mind-numbing argument various fandoms, sports or otherwise, tend to descend into.
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Once this notion takes possession of me, as it has, I confess, now, the inappropriateness of the snails' height, which at first seems so marvelously comical, takes on a lunatic air, the smack of a cosmic incongruity.
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She wears a fairly convincing wig, and her ill-fitting suit feels more like a joke about the poor tailoring that plagues the president and his administration than about the incongruity of a woman in male garb.
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Beyond the comic incongruity of an old man's tweeting like a teenager, fans seemed to revel in the overarching strangeness of a candidate's commenting directly on an issue, or a candidate's replying to any tweet at all.
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The press coverage of the story — in 21 the website Thrillist named the "Watcher House" the creepiest urban legend in New Jersey — has made much of the incongruity between the terrifying letters and the seemingly perfect suburban town.
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The incongruity of a container of blue light wedged into a large natural form is allayed by Braman's poetic play of the organic against the geometric, as well as the specificity of her color combinations, scale, and materials.
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Though my initial conversation with Darnielle takes place before noon, he spends much of our interview munching on Bottle Caps hard candy, yielding a charming incongruity once he starts extolling the virtues of the French "New Novel" movement.
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Fans and musicians at the Rebellion Festival in Blackpool, a resort town on the Irish Sea, noted the incongruity of the establishment's embracing of punk rock, but they said the British punk scene was vibrant and even growing.
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With characteristic incongruity, though, they decided to save a third of the YIVO collection for a research center near Frankfurt that would study "the Jewish question" even if they planned to make sure the Jews would be extinct.
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The incongruity of glitz in one of the city's most violent neighborhoods was stark, and I was there to ask him the unanswerable: What can he or anyone else do to address the epidemic of gun violence in Chicago?
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Looking back I don't know whether it was her appearance that made me glance at what she was reading or what she was reading that sensitized me to the air of loneliness, or incongruity, that had settled around her.
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Docu-series director Joe Berlinger, who is also releasing a fictionalized account of Bundy's crimes starring Zac Efron, recently told PEOPLE that he wanted to explore the incongruity of Bundy's character — he was articulate, handsome, and a law school student.
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Jalloh, a 14-year-old Muslim immigrant from Guinea, may seem like a surprising conduit for the writing of Whitman, a long-dead queer socialist poet from Brooklyn, but such incongruity is the active agent in Whitman, Alabama's therapeutic salve.
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The incongruity of Israel's status as the 20th best country in the world to live in –while also the country that is most unfairly singled out for human rights violations – is a dead giveaway of the hypocrisy of the United Nations.
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Greenpeace said that the split in such investments signals a concerning incongruity in interests, especially given Shaw's role in PCAST, which has previously submitted recommendations to the president to continue efforts to decarbonize the economy and invest in renewable energy.
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What comes through in every story — and in every sentence — of The Orchid Stories is the incongruity of life and how, in some strangely comical and weirdly nightmarish way, it all makes sense ("banana fritters at the bus terminal café").
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Keeping aside the figurative incongruity (empathy and machines), humans have made great progress in building functional pieces of the human brain — from machines that can handle computation, memory storage and retrieval to probabilistic reasoning, pattern recognition, natural language processing, classification, learning, etc.
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The equations that describe the universe at the smallest and largest scales — how the tiniest elementary particles dance, how the space-time of the cosmos bends — predicted a slight incongruity, a tiny unbalancing in the numbers of certain particles under certain circumstances.
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This limbo probably owes something to the uncertain pronunciation of his name (most say "Badge-it"; some insist on "Bag-ot") and more to the wide range and seeming incongruity of his fields of expertise, as the disparate assortment of his celebrants suggests.
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This limbo probably owes something to the uncertain pronunciation of his name (most say "Badge-it"; some insist on "Bag-ot") and more to the wide range and seeming incongruity of his fields of expertise, as the disparate assortment of his celebrants suggests.
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But the public doesn't need internal emails to recognize the obvious incongruity between sanitized terminology like "modern sporting rifle" and ads with men dressed in tactical gear, swinging tricked-out AR-15s and creeping around like wannabe members of the Navy SEALs.
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Forget the incongruity of the premise — we're asked to believe that Alice and Valerie's company is both the best private investigation firm around and the most incompetent — and instead just be dismayed at the prospect of having to spend more time with Alice and Ben.
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With Walker overseeing the most radical state welfare cuts in the country and Speaker Paul Ryan shepherding through the most conservative agenda in a generation in the US House, Baldwin — a progressive who has endorsed Medicare-for-all — seems like an incongruity in the Badger State.
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That incongruity is at the heart of what is fast becoming one of the most significant questions on Capitol Hill: How far will Republican senators go in pushing through President Trump's judicial nominees over the objections of Democrats from states where the potential new judges will preside?
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No, the problem with The Division 2 is the breathtaking incongruity between the powerfully visualized human tragedy your character inhabits and the refusal to engage even in an elementary way with the themes to which it is inherently tied: terrorism, guns, government and anti-government forces, and everything else.
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The rocks are then coated in a red or gold glaze and fired for three days under high temperatures, a process that contorts the rock's surface texture and creates an "incongruity between the setting and the source, and the exterior and core, of each piece," according to the show's description.
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Attached flat against the gallery wall, they ruptured those white expanses with jarring, slightly creepy depictions of decay — or at least, of surrealistic incongruity: enormous cracks and crevasses opening up to some unfathomable depth; grotto-like cavities growing inexplicably into space; puffy (if oddly weighty) clouds floating near the ceiling.
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In recent years, however, Koch's positions at the AMNH and its Smithsonian counterpart have increasingly drawn criticism for the apparent incongruity of having the executive vice president of a company, Koch Industries, responsible for enormous greenhouse gas emissions and hundreds of oil spills on the boards of major science institutions.
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The movie thus generally plays like less than the sum of its parts -- delivering a few laughs courtesy of Larson and Jackson's playful banter, or the incongruity of Fury getting all gooey about a stray cat, before eventually unleashing Captain Marvel's powers in an action sequence that's fleetingly stirring, then workmanlike thereafter.
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The next year, when ABC broadcast an edited compilation of the show in its weekday late-night slot, she urged the troupe to go to court to try to stop a second such broadcast on the grounds that the editing ruined much of the Pythonesque humor, which relied on running gags, incongruity and absurdity.
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" But, Traister added, "the argument that if Clinton had taken a firmer stand on trade, or spent more time in Green Bay, it would have mitigated the fact that 48 percent of voters chose a self-confessed sexual predator who was endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan, attempts to apply reason where there is only visceral incongruity.
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Some of these also turn up, not at all incongruously — part of the brilliance of Mr. Marshall's art is that it's incongruity-free — in scenes of domestic romance, like the 1992 "This Could Be Love," where a couple undresses for bed as the notes and lyrics of a pop song, Mary Wells's "Two Lovers," float over head.
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There's just the can itself, and the fact that it and the children are being displayed on something like a school stage, plus the flag, and the impression of incongruity (at least) that any patriotic spiel, however well-intentioned, is bound to convey next to the social and emotional human nightmare that the phrase "trash can babies" describes.
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When we first meet grown-up Christian (one of his many aliases borrowed from real mathematicians), he's a soft-spoken, fabric-sensitive, thermos-carrying, incongruity-loving, finger-blowing accountant helping people find tax loopholes in Illinois, where he does his best to blend in despite the fact that between his strapping physique and brusque interpersonal demeanor, he clearly stands out.
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