Sentences with phrase «incongruous when»

But there's something disturbingly incongruous when followers of Jesus are hateful.

Not exact matches

When the actions and behaviors of your company are incongruous with its essential ideals, you've committed the heinous crime of «brand slaughter.»

When there emerges into consciousness an object coupled with an incongruous affect, then one can investigate association paths, argue from the incongruous to the initial object of the affect, and conclude that this combination of initial object and affect has been inhibited by repression.

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.

When capitalism in America did become ideologically self - conscious, it took shelter under the established categories of individualism, however incongruous that would turn out to be.

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.

This seems rather incongruous, coming on the heels of Paladino's explosive anti-gay comments in Brooklyn yesterday and subsequent insistence that his main concern when it comes to the LGBT community is that same - sex marriage should not be legalized.

«It is incongruous and shameful that the Presidency and APC are still engaging in their hypocritical media trial of asking the PDP to refund alleged looted funds, when the world is aware that those who looted the economy are all in the APC where they have become the poster faces of President Buhari and his discredited party

When I met him in his office, he was hunched over a computer — an incongruous sight — beneath a large photograph of the empty governor's office and a portrait of the Supreme Court justice Harry Blackmun.

Gennaro said he intended to highlight differences between Governor Andrew Cuomo's «very nice - sounding and very responsible» sounding statements about fracking and the state agencies» sometime - incongruous actions: «It's nice when elected officials make statements like that because then you can thank them for their statements, for their good - sounding statements, and ask the agencies that answer to the governor to sort of live up to the governor's good rhetoric on this.

Haneke's grip on his characters is so tight, his aesthetic so determined and claustrophobic, and his art - shock tactics so pronounced that when he occasionally indulges in symbolism it comes across as incongruous.

Jonathon Rosenbaum paid the legendary megaton bomb Sextette the ultimate backhanded compliment when he called it «the most chivalrous film ever made,» citing its willful obliviousness to the incongruous spectacle of the world's men falling over themselves to sleep with a then - octogenarian Mae West.

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.

From this serenity and quiet, the film then becomes almost unbearably terrifying — but no less hypnotic — when the carefully laid plans of the teenagers start to derail: mistakes and emotions do not fit within their disaffected frame of mind, and each incongruous element cuts into the serenity of the cinematography with shocking violence.

The story of how the warrior Moses, highly favoured adopted son of the Pharoah Seti (played with papery, sun - dried quaveriness by an entirely incongruous John Turturro), is denied a potentially priceless inheritance when his Hebrew origins are revealed, is a plot driver of Sopranos - like dimensions (below, left to right, Christian Bale, John Turturro, Sigourney Weaver and Joel Edgerton).

When it opened in 1957, the Robert Ridgefield Library had been the tallest building in Ridgefield - a nine - story neoclassical behemoth of granite and glass, columns and cornices, with an incongruous cupola perched uncomfortably on top.

If the juxtaposition seems incongruous, it's also a good indicator of how such objects end up when they leave galleries (arranged, for instance, in a collector's palazzo).

Hikers approaching Lizard's Mouth, a popular bouldering spot on the crest of the Santa Ynez Mountains in Santa Barbara, were caught off guard back in May when they encountered an incongruous sight — brightly colored «yarnbombs» covering 17 sandstone boulders.

The show's relational drama peaks when seemingly incongruous works activate a shared pocket of space.

The study also provides an explanation for seemingly incongruous climate trends, such as how sea ice can continue to decline during this period of stalled warming, and when the sea ice decline might reverse.

Am I the only one who finds it incongruous that President Obama, when on a carefully choreographed trip to Alaska that highlighted global warming, announced the accelerated acquisition of ice breakers?

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.

Of course «healthier choices» and» hard alcohol» are a somewhat incongruous pair, and when Batiste talks about «poison or food», I would suggest it best to take the «food» portion in moderation.

At a time when we are constantly reminded that access to justice is hindered by costly procedures and long delays, and that we should find ways to streamline the legal process, it seems incongruous to actually draft dispositions that allow for longer delays and higher costs at one party's behest.