Sentences with phrase «many incongruous»

Despite this, he owns one, which he christened The Indefensible as partial penance for the incongruous luxury.

The Italian crisis — the country's powerful political leader, the comedian Beppe Grillo, would probably call it «commedia dell «arte» — offers plenty of interesting trading opportunities as long as you don't fall for the incongruous idea that this is the end of the euro area.

In the 21st - century business climate, non-competes can be as incongruous — and about as useful — as an earthen bread oven.

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

It may feel incongruous to direct entrepreneurs to the centers of regulation and bureaucratic quagmire, but that's precisely the point.

The move would have seemed incongruous just a few years ago.

It's that our intimate chat might seem incongruous with the savoury aroma of broiler chickens.

And while it may seem incongruous to charge for services in a public school, this is already the case with before - and after - school care in some provinces.

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

Yet the US involvement was incongruous with president Trump's own stances, who questioned former president Barack Obama's birthplace for years without evidence, threw doubt on the accuracy of stories in US media outlets, and even doled out «fake news awards» in January to reputable news companies including the New York Times and Washington Post.

That seems incongruous.

In all times and seasons the media - message is a weirdly incongruous (and John Lennonesque) amalgam of «be here now» and «serve yourself.»

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).

incongruous to COMMAND dead people if they are incapable of acting, so being dead must not preclude the ability to obey

Sentiments that are incongruous with the second century B.C. are proposed» usually by the brothers» wives» without being explicitly endorsed.

It just seems incongruous to me, Sabio, that one kind of prayer is a speaking to «invisible friends» and other kinds of prayers are ok.

For a European government to bring a blasphemy prosecution in 2017 is incongruous, to say the least.

As a brother caught in an incongruous world, I was, by their efforts, loved but not led to healing.

such a psalm is a direct reflection of the prophetic spirit, and must have been distinctly displeasing to the priests until some later hand added the incongruous anticlimax,

Those topics may seem incongruous, but for Hentoff they were always interrelated.

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

It may seem incongruous to review a book by a reigning Pope alongside a novel by a writer famed for her Vampire Chronicles, but both bring us face to face with the mystery of the Incarnation.

In that case, if they were in the nature of visions (which does not imply unreality) or manifestations of a spiritual body, the old artists» picture of a material body emerging from the tomb is altogether incongruous.

Although the canon shows various ways of adapting Jesus» prohibition of divorce to different situations, it gives unified testimony that divorce should be avoided «in every way possible, for it is incongruous with the gospel of God's reconciling love.»

It certainly needed such an attestation, for what comes next is so ludicrous, so absurd, so incongruous and contrary to natural beliefs about God that it is not surprising to learn that only some «believed in his «Name»» (a very anthropomorphic and non-Platonic idea!).

And after finishing the article — «OK, never - mind, we basically agree on the most important ideas, he just approaches thinks with a philosophical framework so incongruous from mine that even the things we agree on are going to sound totally different.»

Evil is, then, a lack, a deficiency, a weakness, a disproportion, an error, purposeless, unlovely, lifeless, unwise, unreasonable, imperfect, unreal, causeless, indeterminate, sterile, inert, powerless, disordered, incongruous, indefinite, dark, unsubstantial, and never in itself possessed of any existence whatsoever.8

It satirizes the attempt to combine two religions so incongruous as those of Baal and Yahweh.

It seems incongruous that the leader of a tiny ethnic group that lectures Rome on the merits of priestly marriage would draft the final statement of a Vatican Synod on the Middle East.

Additionally, many younger people «pick and choose» their religious beliefs because many different religions have important teachings that are not incongruous.

The evangelical subculture, Balmer argues, is just a «socially constructed reality,» one that is «illusory and incongruous with the larger world.»

«Don't be ridiculous,» he says in effect, «here God is now, receiving praise in the most incongruous of all places, the belly of a great fish swimming in the bowels of the vast uncharted sea!»

«Don't be ridiculous; for here He is now loving the most incongruous, the most improbable, of all people, the Assyrians — murderers, from your point of view, plunderers, godless, amoral!»

«Mohamed» by any spelling is equally incongruous as a boy's name in Great Britain.

By confronting the spontaneous religious constructions with the results of natural science, philosophy can also eliminate doctrines that are now known to be scientifically absurd or incongruous.

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.

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

No one else seemed to think that this was 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.

She represents the corporate motherhood of God's people giving birth to this incongruous Messiah.

We applaud no matter how incongruous.

Blackburn, for instance, says that while the document deals with «categories» that used to be taught as «sexual sin,» it is still incongruous to list homosexuality alongside adultery, fornication and masturbation.

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.

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.

Many local church histories are written without reference to the elements that produce tensions and strains, in this case the neighborhood poor, doubting church colleagues, an incongruous parade, and an amorous drunk.

We also realize, as a result of Schweitzer's type of mysticism, that world - and life - negation or pessimism is now incongruous, and a purely passive spirituality or religious quiescence becomes impossible.

I now feel comfortable reciting the creed without editing it or feeling a pang of conscience if I affirm something that I do not literally believe — an act that once would have struck me as incongruous.

What «comes through» the body and voice of the preacher is neither an object called «a sermon» nor the singular, incongruous ruminations of an individual self.

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.