Sentences with phrase «making incongruous»

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.

Rauschenberg, first famous in the 1950s, made incongruous...

A fading politico will make an incongruous movie and pitch it to the schools.

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.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- It made for an incongruous sight on Wednesday morning, as volunteer actors playing Mary and Joseph walked in procession in front of the U.S. Supreme Court with Baby Jesus (a 4 - month - old).

We're conditioned to function in a rewards - based work structure (make this sale, get this bonus), and any vocational answer given that flies counter to that is seen as weird, odd, and incongruous with the way things should 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.

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.

The people, almost 2,000 in number, are millionaires and manual laborers, businessmen and farmers — an incongruous group made one by an age - old preoccupation with the perfection of fine dogwork.

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.

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.

What seems most incongruous, is that Shire City can force others to stop selling a product that we, an herbal community, created, made popular, and sold for decades before these people were even born.

I think the studs really make this look; it ties in the gold on the accent nails, which was kind of incongruous to the rest of the mani.

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.

Whether it's the muffled, unsettling synths that peer out from underneath the groove, the mannered and highly potent collision of seemingly incongruous drum patterns, or simply the masterful arrangement, it all adds up to make a record that's difficult to second - guess and lots of fun to unpack.

Though the movie is the most explicitly «noir» of all the Coens» pictures, its look more closely resembles that of science fiction movies of the 1950s — a fact that makes its peculiar UFO subplot a touch less incongruous.

But the rest of the film's attempts to mirror the animated original just make the new scenes feel horribly incongruous.

It changes volume in the middle of a scene, displays audible hiss for all looped dialogue, and, in one priceless, incongruous encounter, makes it seem as though Buffy and Merrick are talking into buckets in the Sistine Chapel.

The dash top itself was also leather... which made the large plastic panel which ran from one side of the dash to the other look even more incongruous than it should have done in an # 86k car.

You can forgive the I.D. Vizzion's ridiculous name and incongruous shag carpeting, but the deeper issue is how this four - passenger concept's nondescript exterior doesn't quite make us dream of a Level 5 autonomous future.

But it does seem a bit incongruous that it makes a nearly - as efficient, much quicker 7.5 - second 0 - 60 Camry Hybrid look fast despite being positioned as the performance - oriented car.

Totally incongruous, a bottom more like the top would've made it truly lustworthy.

Including unnecessary information's will not only hamper the quality of your paper but will make it inappropriate and incongruous.

It seems incongruous to ask someone that uninformed to make a medical decision about presurgical care.

Rolling the boss fights into this setup, makes them feel more worthwhile rather than the incongruous approach in the Western version of the last game.

It's the collision of specific yet incongruous interests that makes this beautiful.

The canvas is a masterful example of the gestural abstraction for which Mitchell has become so rightly famous; composed of passages of delicate brushstrokes juxtaposed with anamorphous blocks made up of alternating light and dark tones, Blueberry provides a matchless example of Mitchell's ability to bring together seemingly incongruous elements into one harmonious piece.

The works, which began emerging from the artist's New York studio around 1959, were made of canvas and other fabrics, stretched over steel frames and stitched with wire, sometimes incorporating airplane parts, war - surplus materials, laundry — conveyor belts, industrial - saw teeth, and other incongruous objects.

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.

To quote Kolodziej, «A patchwork is something made up of an incongruous variety of pieces.

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.

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.

As mentioned, it seems incongruous that out of all the things which the Law Society wants to make sure lawyers are doing, the * only * thing they will be required to attest to on an annual basis is their adoption and compliance with an ED&I statement.

How glossy do you make it: glossy (as this is), or does that seem too... incongruous?

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.

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