Having lived among it in its homeland though, US culture suddenly seems strangely incongruous here. |
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It seems incongruous that Garibaldi produced species of diving ducks, since these do not commonly frequent the Sacramento Valley. |
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Plans are conceived of as singular intentions, regarded as incongruous within a diverse society. |
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Hence, the previous superpower demonologies now appear incongruous, if not ludicrous, when occasionally applied to their nuclear foes. |
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The vicar was wearing a leather bomber jacket, which I found slightly incongruous given his profession. |
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Add to that a penchant for Jamaican riddims and dub production and you've got an incongruous amalgam that works amazingly well. |
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Innocent jokes depend upon verbal felicities, puns, play upon words, combining incongruous words, and so on. |
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So we have some jangly guitar songs with a dance floor four four beat, some incongruous soft rock and then some straightforward house. |
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One often sees a wiggling, Lycra-clad nymphet keeping very incongruous company with her soberly-dressed grandmother. |
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Even more incongruous was coming across a town of steeply gabled Swiss chalets nestled in a sea of pine trees in the hills outside Fez. |
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He is just offended by an incongruous adaptation, which, in his opinion, undermines his own concept by degrading his heroine. |
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For its madam, it's a reputable house of ill repute, the seemingly incongruous respectable brothel. |
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He's a garrulous paterfamilias who has somehow picked up the incongruous metropolitan affectation of a cigarette holder. |
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Pan-fried foie gras followed swiftly, served with roasted fresh figs and a rather incongruous glass of Sauternes. |
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But this was all a tad incongruous in the surroundings of what looked like a converted garage. |
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They all folded up on themselves and became a puzzle of incongruous crimes and criminals. |
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The result is a place which is rather incongruous, with only a small town centre surrounded by large numbers of houses. |
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The spaghetti western mood was slightly dampened by an incongruous collection of artesania stalls in the square. |
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The early tone of the picture is strangely incongruous with the horrifying turn of events at the end. |
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And when drivers queue to allow a family of geese to amble across, it is one of those incongruous scenes which can only make you smile. |
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So we have some jangly guitar songs with a dancefloor four four beat, some incongruous soft rock and then some straightforward house. |
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The result is an incongruous lush patchwork of fields containing tomatoes, cherries, apples and corn, all surrounded by desert. |
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Critics argue the park itself is incongruous in a country where around half the population of 130m lives below the poverty line. |
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The single pair of golden strappy high-heels nestling amongst my numerous black shoes does not look incongruous. |
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In the end it was a victory for both the small punter and the world's leading book-maker, a slightly incongruous alliance. |
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Such an ambitious credo sounds incongruous coming from someone whose debut album is not only innovative but also seems resolutely uncommercial. |
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Blackmore performs in a sartorial nightmare of clashing colours and incongruous items of clothing. |
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Two of the new sculptures feature big plywood or Sheetrock screens behind which lurk some wildly incongruous commercial objects. |
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I had my Howard Jones haircut at the time, incongruous against my woggle and neckerchief. |
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They have mastered the K-pop technique of incongruous, chopped-up, random-sounding English choruses. |
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The improbable combo, including stand-up bass and flugelhorn, is as incongruous as its frontman. |
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Lessig's posted a barn-burner of a blog entry on the fact that the wildly incongruous exit-poll data from the election hasn't been made public. |
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It's all very incongruous coming from the mouth of a titled man whose toffee vowels are drawn out like a penny chew. |
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Before we could spend any more time on this somewhat incongruous image of himsa in the lamasery, a lama arrived, waving the keys. |
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I am sure that they did not feel that they looked incongruous, in their blue executive's suits, flushing lengths of TP down the loo. |
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Emma's miniskirt formed an incongruous addition to this parade of shapeless sack dresses, zip off trousers and sandals. |
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Cycling and painting are quite separate means of self-expression and their combination is both incongruous and indecorous. |
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The toy appeared strangely incongruous, almost an antique among the plastic playthings that littered the floor. |
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This man is incongruous, inconsistent and unreliable and is the latest saviour for the opposition. |
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It seems incongruous that such a self-styled truth teller should wager his liberty on a godfather like Correa. |
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Such a scenario appears incongruous, if not abhorrent, to many. |
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In the dream, his waking life seemed unreal and incongruous. |
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Yet, from all accounts, she came pretty close to erecting a large shopping complex which would have become a rather incongruous backdrop to the Taj Mahal. |
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White hair flecked with silver fell about his shoulders, dark piercing eyes smiling out from a face touched by agelessness incongruous to the silvery beard at his chin. |
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The ones I saw were being guarded, not by Americans, but by brown-skinned soldiers, men of their own size and race, incongruous in alien boots and uniforms. |
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While the story, the script, and the five ornate zoomorphic initials accord well with our expectations of the elite Komnenian book culture, the images seem incongruous. |
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It did not seem at all incongruous, either, that these people who watched him by with scorn and longing and utter revilement, these were the people that he would fight for. |
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The initial musical spark was built around a mixture of highly incongruous styles, including medieval folk, bossa nova, soul, rhythm and blues, and jazz. |
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Reflecting the rivalrous aspirations of a tumultuous, multilayered and multicultural society, it voices itself in a multitude of apparently incongruous vocabularies of form. |
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Canova's Napoleon was not presented in incongruous isolation but rather in its own room, like an urban temple, as the rotunda of a sculpture gallery. |
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This seemingly incongruous role-reversal serves to bolster Mann's depiction of the subversive nature of the relationship between the Aryan and Dravidian elements of the story. |
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Even those who were not already republicans wanted the royals to be more aware of how incongruous their profligacy seemed. |
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He does not take umbrage at the incongruous presence of the housekeeper in a presidential suite that is still occupied. |
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Berliners for the most part simply lived with it, incongruous and sinister as it was. |
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We hiked up Vermont Valley with a guide, Ellroy, to look for indigenous wild St. Vincent parrots, through thick rain forest of figs, palms, balsa and incongruous pine trees. |
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Minaj further mystifies her motives by layering these terrifying, offensive visual cues with her own totally incongruous lyrics. |
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There was a polite smattering of applause as the above mentioned students made their way on stage, looking incongruous in their formal school uniform and blazers. |
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Then, after the incongruous Caribbean interlude, Donaldson falls back to looping, phasing and EQing all the other elements until the allotted six minutes are up. |
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The stunningly modern helter-skelter overpasses seem rather incongruous with a melange of bikes and cars that follow a system of road safety entirely their own. |
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These ungrounded rumors wildly combine incongruous prejudices and fears that seem to have no source but are always a repetition of someone else's repetition. |
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It seems incongruous that one so young, so fit and so honourable should be taken from the bosom of his family so suddenly, but then, all things in this life are flawed. |
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Curtains are becoming more simple and swags and tails, while the classic window dressing, now look a little incongruous and dated in a modern house. |
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The kitsch-Latino soundtrack is similarly apt and incongruous all at once. |
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The presence of Hollywood in this remote refugee camp seems incongruous. |
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It looks surprising and incongruous and somehow very British. |
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The practice is incongruous considering that the duty of both agencies is to maintain the environment and to prevent damage to and pollution of the environment. |
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A few have mottled top layers with splashes of incongruous colors that seem to have come together with the randomness of drips of paint on a drop cloth. |
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The first sweet lemon to be sold in the UK is a surprisingly incongruous fruit, both in taste, shape and hue. |
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In the case of the Cybermen the Vaderesque trappings, and the incongruous displays of emotion, were rapidly stripped away. |
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Death is always incongruous, for it never throws itself toward life as toward its twin or twinnable other. |
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Forbes, in his tighty whities and black socks, seems an incongruous apparition against the sense of home the kitchen implies. |
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The incongruous figure of Domi stood before them in a semicrouch, her nose twitching as the chamber powered up. |
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Lee's words appeal to normally separate but not necessarily incongruous groups ranging from Social Darwinists to opponents of multiculturalism to social conservatives. |
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This can include unilateral optic nerve lesions, paracentral scotomas, congruous and incongruous homonymous hemianopias and quadrantanopias, as well as altitudinal defects. |
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Some rather incongruous Art Deco structures nearby date from this period. |
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Ardent suns had likewise tanned his face till it was swarthy as a Spaniard's. The yellow mustache appeared incongruous in the midst of such swarthiness. |
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There are no straight lines in nature, so the runwaylike precision of the canals is startling to the eye, wildly incongruous amid the natural curves of the bayous and lakes. |
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