Sentences with phrase «more incongruous»

More incongruous is the video from Attorney General George Brandis, talking about his commitment to access to justice (despite great concerns about funding for Indigenous legal services), and to working with the Native Title sector (despite plans to introduce a bill to reverse the effect of a federal court decision regarding the Noongar people), with nary an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander flag in sight nor mention of his support for changes to the Racial Discrimination Act.

Manhattan hotelier Jason Pomeranc couldn't have picked a more incongruous spot — a former Best Western — for his third West Coast outpost....

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.

But while we might expect the messy dialogue between conservatism and liberalism to go on in UKIP, just as it does in the Conservative party itself, the presence of other strands of thinking might seem more incongruous.

Not exact matches

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.

«Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, and The Dark Side of Medical Science,» a 2014 essay published in the charmingly incongruous Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association, ticks off a diverse list of recent experiments that have drawn the «Franken -» label: the cloning of Dolly the sheep, the engineering of a highly lethal H5N1 bird influenza that could more easily infect mammals, the synthesizing of an entire bacterial genome.

It is because of this incongruous comparison that the bronze medalist, who is objectively worse off, would be more pleased with herself, and happier with her achievement, than the silver medalist.

Who could guess it would become, in an age of mass tourism, an incongruous pillar of the city, far more famous than the magnificent cathedral next door?

If this sounds like a «Species» sequel with incongruous A-list casting, you'd be more on track putting Natasha Henstridge's man - eating aside and instead picturing a sister film to «The Man Who Fell to Earth.»

The score, by Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury, shifts effectively between incongruous acoustic guitar and oppressive breathing - synth sounds that I associate with Denis Villeneuve's Arrival — a film with which Annihilation shares more than a few elements.

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.

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.

A rather incongruous film to be remade, 2007's The Hitcher more or less covers the same ground as the original.

Indeed, it borders on miraculous that Jonze was able to assemble his hulking costumes, rowdy action, emotional introspection, and gifted but incongruous vocal cast (which also comprises Forest Whitaker and Chris Cooper) into anything more than a Muppet Lord of the Flies.

Sloppy takes are used with unnatural verbal stumbles, shots are repeated as if they were not, coverage is insufficient, and, more than once, scenes are patched together in an incongruous fashion.

It's too wide a span of films to cover, not to mention that modern film noir is practically incongruous with the more seedy, Hitchcockian elements intrinsic to the nightmarish erotic thrillers that dominated the years just prior to Fatal Instinct's release.

Alas, the balance between both isn't amply or intelligently thought out, with the marriage of exuberant visuals, anarchic action and amusement for older minds incongruous more often than not.

It is certainly incongruous to suggest, as Darling - Hammond does, that knowing the definitions of these basic terms provides proof that prospective teachers benefit from sitting through 30 credit hours of education coursework or that states should invest their resources in even more formal training.

One of those options is the AMG Track Pace system that seems incongruous on a soft - top, but it's there nonetheless (probably because it would have cost more to have taken it out of the Cabriolet than to leave it in).

The Queen's Gallery is on the west front side of Buckingham Palace, on a street that's always noisy, full of taxis rushing round the incongruous impediment of a massive residence in the middle of a route to Parliament and Westminster Abbey and, more importantly, a train station named Victoria.

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

«Several thousand dollars» up in the first sentence, for example, is incongruous with «$ 250k left» which is much more than «several» suggests.

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.

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.

Blinded by the form that is nothing more than a pretext, bothered by the incongruous and vulgar supports, the spectator will sometimes be thrown off course.

The saturated composition of I Believe the Sun is the Center of the Universe reflects the rapid sharing and consumption of the digital age, yet the work demonstrates how small, seemingly incongruous, pieces of information blend into a larger, more holistic pictures.

While seemingly incongruous, scientists are predicting both more droughts and flooding for the southeastern United States, noting that the region has already experienced changes in the frequency, distribution, and intensity of precipitation, a trend that is expected to continue.

Joel Alleyne's December column: The Need to Forget — Less Is More has been on my mind since reading it, though perhaps this incongruous statement should be «in» my mind.

Even more troubling, the sheer scale of the tragedy seemed to demand a grander conspiracy than the incongruous politics of a single troubled man.