Sentences with word «incongruous»

That God's love, manifest in diverse ways throughout the duration of the universe, might come to a full and unsurpassable self - expression in an individual human being who lived and died in the Middle East almost two thousand years ago does not seem incongruous with what we now understand about the nature of an evolving universe, especially if we regard religion as a phenomenon emergent from the universe rather than just something done on the earth by cosmically homeless human subjects.

While the later works seem incongruous with those from the 1960s, Stella's entire body of work serves as a paradigm in which painting establishes itself against mediums that have been challenging its existence: photography and later digital reproduction.

At first thought, teaching yoga to a high - risk school population might seem as incongruous as recruiting the chess team for Sumo wrestling.

John Kørner in his paintings for his solo exhibition «Apple bombs», presents a constellation of seemingly incongruous pictorial elements in which the viewer is caught up, setting in motion dialogues concerning wellbeing, human relationships, consumption and survival.

Of course, some of the concerns raised have seemed somewhat incongruous in the light of legal's poor track record in data security investment and awareness, but this is exactly what is problematic about the cloud anxiety responses: they are typically excuses for inaction that fail to address real and present threats, regardless of the firm's use of the cloud.

Early interviews with the artist reveal an enjoyment of slapstick comedy and there is something of this in the deadpan combination of incongruous elements.

I bounded up on the stage, styled in an outfit so incongruous with the honour bestowed upon me, that the entire auditorium including myself was in laughter.

«If they were to pass it and it was not incongruous with what the federal government would do to us, I think it's a very exciting possibility,» the governor said.

It turns out that the slightly incongruous sight of the Nismo Juke concept that sat on Nissan's stand at the Tokyo motor show is set to just be the start.

The increase in demand for natural products seems somewhat incongruous given increased sales of processed and convenience (fast) foods.

Newsom leads the pack in fundraising and is running as the campaign's progressive, which some find incongruous with his success as a businessman, who founded and owns a constellation of restaurants and wineries.

Rooms on the left side of the hotel feature views over a grown - over area where people have set up camps, a rather incongruous view for a luxury lodging.

The pink marble bath was a bit dated and the gold fixtures seemed a bit incongruous when compared with the rest of the suite, but this may be a matter of taste as it was spacious and well appointed.

But perhaps the most incongruous part of the movie was that they tried to convince the world that Hilary Swank and Mia Kirshner look alike for plot purposes.

Incongruous juxtapositions of commonplace objects, these improvised sculptural sketches elude strict conceptual logic, aligning themselves instead with a poetic lineage running from arte povera through Richard Wentworth to Cathy Wilkes and Francis Alÿs.

Meanwhile, the transmission felt incongruous with the level of refinement Aston sought to deliver; shifts felt like an old - school single - clutch gearbox, and the paddle - shift actuation itself felt like it took too long.

For some, the dystopia might not be «dystopian» enough - the disconnect between what we know and what Lepucki imagines coming across as incongruous at best.

Save for a few issues, the game's seemingly incongruous combination of genres and influences succeeds — delivering an appealing and delightfully quirky game.

The artist's lush videos — characterized by incongruous settings, repetition and endurance, and humorous or nostalgic soundtracks — elicit contradictory feelings of pleasure and anxiety, humor and sincerity, sentimentality and skepticism.

Also included in the exhibition is a series of watercolors and gouaches on paper that explores the formal and metaphorical qualities of whales and airships, two seemingly incongruous objects.

These animals are photographed in incongruous settings — an executive office, a café — and the insistent presence of these witnesses of the universe internalizes the relationship of existence, making it unfamiliar and opening an unexpected door, the self - portrait.

By reversing hierarchies of foreground and background and making incongruous compositional choices, both artists upend pictorial conventions and invite viewers to consider painting's inherent falsity while acknowledging its potential as a catalyst for communication and ideation.

the impact often looks more incongruous also - running a shiny new bus through a shanty - town begs obvious questions on priorities that maybe aren't so starkly apparent in the first world.

Overall Schnitzer's additions do compliment the car's appearance although the rear spoiler is a little incongruous given the rest of the carbon is integrated with the car's flamboyant shape.

It's easily the most attractive of the three devices, although it might be a little incongruous with the rest of the staid, restrained accessories in your entertainment center.

Working with ready - mades and often incongruous found items, Wentworth transforms, juxtaposes and manipulates them into arrangements that subvert their intended use and undermine their supposedly routine and «fixed» nature.

Since his death the artwork of James Rosenquist is once again getting the focus it deserves, not least because of his masterful ability to combine incongruous elements into a poetic and pulsating whole.

A Shinto priest sees nothing incongruous about waving his harai - gushi (purification wand with paper streamers) over the nose cone of a Boeing 747 and blessing it for secular use.

The new products had a knock - on effect to interior design, and, so as not to look incongruous in the new settings, ceramics would have to change, too.

Set against a painted surface of psychedelic colors, Aram's process of layering various incongruous images into a unified composition recalls the formal practices of 1960s Pop artists like Andy Warhol, which in turn echoes early Cubist collage.

And a slightly incongruous emphasis on loud, long and enthusiastic worship.

Stage - set scenarios and incongruous figure groupings lend Jockum Nordström's work at the Camden Arts Centre an unsettling appeal

By interrogating opposites, the featured works elucidate the differences between two poles, and, in the same breath, obscure any distinctions between two seemingly incongruous parts.

Often creating elaborate installations restaging icons of modern design and engineering using incongruous materials, from a model Le Corbusier's infamous 1952 Unite d'Habitation made from foamcore to a plywood McDonald's, he creates unexpected juxtapositions that are both humorous and politically - minded.

That's useful, but large bezels always look incongruous when you're working in laptop mode.

To convey to a lay audience just how incongruous the LIA's disputed trades were, even by the standards of its other costly but unlevered security purchases, I analysed fund competence across 25 investment functions in terms of expertise and organisation.

Works such as Greffe ’72 (Graft» 72)(1972) and Human Bonsai — Freedom of Deformity — Deformity of Freedom (1979) are incongruous mixed media assemblages (paint, soil, metal, light bulbs, thermometers) resembling body parts and genital organs cultivated as bonsai trees.

They have a somewhat cartoony, incongruous appearance at times.

Matar's writing is arrestingly evocative, blending raw emotion with tiny, seemingly incongruous details seen through the eyes of a child, details that serve to fill the adult reader, who can interpret what the child sees in the wider context, with fear as he or she picks up the traces of impending doom lurking behind the innocuous.

The artworks in the exhibition constitute a resistance to the forms of definition and closure represented by modernism and accentuate the coexistence of incongruous ideas.

Since the occasions that make up the universe are themselves through and through experiential by nature, there is nothing incongruous in our holding that the creative ground of the universe is also the ultimate experiencing recipient of the events of world process.

Attempts to squeeze a cappella into as many incongruous situations as possible seem to be running out of steam.

Against this, it might be considered incongruous for the SDT to continue applying the criminal standard now that a specific rule applies the civil standard in disciplinary decisions made by the SRA itself.

The bird's body is made of up of angular scroll - like designs reminiscent of the incised markings on archaic Chinese bronzes; its head, depicted naturalistically, emerges from the metallic - looking neck in a deliberately incongruous way, suggesting transformation and renewal.

When one's view of God is developed from reading scripture this way, he has to contend with many incongruous statements about God, and the only way to make sense of these is to view them as adjectives.

That voice, as thin and willowy as the man himself, seems almost incongruous for a man of such charisma and presence — even more so when it becomes clear that Spielberg, along with screenwriter Tony Kushner, has put together a portrait of Lincoln that is as averse to pulling punches as are his battle sequences.

Whether it's DC and Marvel's Amalgam Universe, Dave Sim's Cerebrus palling around with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, or Madman and Superman talking on a playground about God, there's an unexpected joy that comes from mashing up two possibly incongruous worlds.

Echoing the posters» lifecycle and the zeal and desire inherent in their original design and intention, Simmons builds up layer after layer of sections of found posters in his paintings; sourcing, cropping, re-colouring, re-printing, tearing and juxtaposing incongruous events and chronologies to invoke a familiar, dynamic language through a series of fragmented memories.