Sentences with phrase «incongruous at»

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.

That the film's final credits roll over multi-layered, repeated shots of Yalini fondly stroking Dheepan's hair seems incongruous at first; but seen as an animation of pure, human intimacy, it's perfect.

Not exact matches

(This sentiment made Thiel an incongruous presence at the convention of a party trying to win women's votes in a democracy.

Such a pursuit is, however, incongruous with man's real situation, for the fact is that he is not secure at all.

Though the thinking of our animistic ancestors may seem to us naïve, it remains true that a multitude of whimsical gods, so constituted that they are likely to be pleased or displeased by almost anything, is not incongruous with the welter of man's joys and miseries, befalling him, at least when superficially observed, with irrational capriciousness.

As for the bishop, having the obscenely rich catolic church at odds with him seem incongruous.

Is it the players who are failing to come to terms with the system deployed by their manager or, is the system incongruous to Arsenal's style of football given the kind of players Wenger has at his disposal?

Therefore, the concept of gradually «de-institutionalizing» a child at the onset of adoption makes the most sense as this will provide a true blueprint for families to follow which is organized, strategic while operating at the level of the child's development thereby bypassing the needs of the parents which may be noble and nurturing, but incongruous with the psycho - social and cognitive stage of the child.

Tory Boyz, which Graham wrote in 2008 but has now revived for a run by the National Youth Theatre at the Ambassadors Theatre, is equally as incongruous for modern theatre - goers.

It seems rather incongruous that he should spend half of his time on seemingly narrow tasks like trying to get local councils to cut out waste and be more efficient at providing public services, and the other half of his time on «Communities» - ie religion.

«At the moment, we believe this action, purportedly sacking the Kogi executive is prejudicial and incongruous with the party's desires for reconciliation.

Against the familiar sounds of suburban life, it is somehow incongruous and appropriate at the same time.

At first blush the setting seems incongruous: The tropical sun beats down dreamily, the smell of broken coconuts drifts from beneath the palm trees, and the ocean roars rhythmically in the background.

Feedback commented on the incongruous warning aimed at pregnant or lactating women on a men's multivitamin supplement (4 April).

Word of their incongruous score spreads around the island, and crusty celebrity treasure - hunter Romer Treece (Robert Shaw) decides to help them as Haitian drug dealer Cloche (Louis Gossett Jr.) embarks on a campaign of violence and intimidation to get at the goods.

The creatures seem to fall in two categories, batlike things that swarm and incongruous critters that are bony, tentacled and shark - toothed all at once.

Moments like that one, as well as another that finds Doug and Jimmy hitting the dance floor at a wedding — breaking out moves ranging from hip hop to disco to Charleston with incongruous flair — momentarily breathe some much - needed comic life into «The Wedding Ringer.»

It's at best incongruous, the kind of incongruity that seems delightful on the page but not in practice.

It would be incongruous and futile to charge teachers with the task of imbuing their students with an understanding of our system of constitutional democracy, while at the same time immunizing those same teachers from the need to respect constitutional protections.

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

This can be incongruous with what the citizenry at - large may consider a «good» education.

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.

At the same time, these same fabulous designs were often ruined by the restrictive federal crash requirements in the States, requiring installation of bulky, incongruous bumpers.

The analog clock in the center of the stack is a bit incongruous but is easy to read at a glance.

At the sight of this cortege, an incongruous roaring shakes the crowd, where shaggy adults and slender youths vie for the choicest places.

It was bright orange, brand new, and perfectly incongruous, so we stared at it for seven hours.

The embroiled project is not sacrosanct; an incongruous plot, mechanical quest lines, and a haphazard world constitute a jet impacting the ground at dangerous speed.

The embroiled Final Fantasy XV is not sacrosanct; an incongruous plot, mechanical quest lines, and a haphazard world constitute a jet impacting the ground at dangerous speed.

This juxtaposition of signifiers, «at once serious and tongue - in - cheek,» was fundamental to the inspiration behind collage: «Emphasizing concept and process over end product, collage has brought the incongruous into meaningful congress with the ordinary.»

Yet they are far from sentimental and she readily stripped her sitters of their masks, foregrounding rather the incongruous, the awkward, and, at times, the comical.

Matching, for example, Laurie Lambrecht's archival pigment prints with 19th century French naturalist engravings or juxtaposing one of Jack Youngerman's elegantly architectonic sculptures with Italian School architectural detail drawings, the curators have created combinations that might at first blush seem incongruous, but instead interact effortlessly.

Less synchronised are the anarchically incongruous experiments depicted in Mooing Here and Now, 2014, a work filled with loose ends and unexpected turns: a deep - sea diver fastens an industrial milking device to a garlanded cow; a marauding elephant, its intentions toward another floored cow unclear, is fired at from above by a soldier - cum - scientist.

At a remove from each other, the titles indicate two narrative frames for the incongruous props and posters that appear around them.

Yet they are far from sentimental and she readily stripped her sitters of their masks, foregrounding rather the incongruous, the awkward, and, at times, the comical — Neel was a self - proclaimed admirer of Honoré Daumier.

A gallery assistant's response to my offer to share a map at the Thursday - evening preview of the 2009 New York Art Book Fair was unarguably commendable, but her enthusiasm seemed a little incongruous given the amount of paper pushed at this annual event.

Work No. 135 by Martin Creed, is a protrusion that grows from and becomes part of the wall itself, finished in the same material and painted white so that it appears simultaneously at home and incongruous.

Using a variety of materials initially cleaved from personal photographs that she collages together with seemingly incongruous materials - Papadopoulos develops a language of imagery that attempts to accesses the more sinister and ugly aspects of life while at the same time asking us to approach it with a more celebratory approach.

While the Yorkshire countryside may seem like an incongruous place to encounter KAWS» giant, cartoon - like characters, their existential weariness actually makes them seem right at home brooding among the expansive parkland of Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Northern England.

A rather incongruous sight greets visitors who glance up at the inside of this iconic dome.

What connects this exhibition that references Smithson, praying mantises and the Wild West at first appears dauntingly incongruous but each work is unified by the revelation that space and time are never neutral.

Based off of her own cardboard models and related drawings, her paintings piece together fragments of place, and the incongruous ways we arrive at our destinations.

He's particularly drawn to Japanese food preparation and fashion, in which «things are put together in a way that at first seems incongruous or inappropriate, but it has a basic appeal because it's left - of - center.

This liminal sense of perspective is further emphasized by the initially incongruous text at the bottom of the work: «Saturnine Swing» in small, anachronistic typewritten letters.

At a first glance, the images in Parsonage's paintings might seem somewhat incongruous; a bloated frog with a glazed expression named Alice; a volcano cast in alizarin hues, emitting hot lava and toxic fumes; a crowd of drinkers with gangly limbs painted in an acrid rose palette, not dissimilar to a flock of flamingoes.

Compositional elements that at first glance seem incongruous or haphazard reveal unanticipated harmonies.

But to hunt them for sport, just to be able to shoot at a moving target, is incongruous with morality.

Figure 23 The text at the top of each panel appears slightly deformed [and incongruous bold & font], as do the lines between data points, and the icons used for the data.

Having obvious wastage of energy, even if it is trivial in comparison to the total energy generated, associated with devices that are aimed at reducing greenhouse gas production seems particularly incongruous.

At a time when the U.S. government is busy propping up «too big to fail» private firms and providing vital lifelines to others, it seems incongruous that it would refuse to do the same for our planet.

Given that, up until recently, large firms took the position that you get what you pay for and that top quality comes only at top rates, Chesler's advice on economizing seems as incongruous as say, Warren Buffet offering tips on clipping coupons.