Sentences with phrase «seem incongruous»

Floor cushions with pared - back style might seem incongruous, but they can add a subtle extra comfort to a room.

It may seem incongruous that luxury markets are heating up, given that much of the world is still recovering from the 2008 financial crisis.

Such services may not be core to today's law firms and may even seem incongruous or beyond their current capabilities, but they are most certainly going to be core to the Big Four and the new generation of alternative legal service providers.

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

While the later works seem incongruous with those from the 1960s, Stella's entire body of work serves as a paradigm in which painting establishes itself against mediums that have been challenging its existence: photography and later digital reproduction.

To see her work, such as Exodus of Confederates from Atlanta (2005), featured with the gentle, meticulous paintings of Morris Hirshfield (1872 - 1946), for example, could initially seem incongruous.

Her urgent - as - ever truisms, rendered stoically in marble, might seem incongruous with island life, but her trademark LED signs fit right in — that is, until you get up close and see they're broadcasting sensitive government documents.

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.

7 Sporty exhaust tips are beautifully shaped and integrated but do seem incongruous and somehow inappropriate on a Rolls - Royce.

To focus on the film's grittier side, the bloodshed and tears seem incongruous with LeBeouf's still Disney - like performance.

Superfluous material, such as the eldest boy's first dalliances with romance, seem incongruous with the rest of the story.

This quality may seem incongruous with the adrenaline - infused ER, but Lewin disagrees and points to the fossil.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

That seems incongruous.

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.

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.

It seems incongruous to me that one of the top 20 richest clubs in the world (in terms of revenue) and one that boasts how it is in the top 10 of highest attendances in Europe should so regularly find itself scrabbling around in the bargain basement of the loan market.

It always seems incongruous that kids could go hungry in a place like America, but that happens every day.

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.

Magnesium is a relaxant mineral and it seems incongruous that it would cause nightmares.

His musical choices are similarly effective, though the irregular inclusion of the original theme music seems incongruous amongst all the 70s - influenced rock.

There are lots of other things I could say about the film — most of the music seems incongruous and yet is utterly fitting, which I love.

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.

The combination of off road and luxury in the Overland seems incongruous.

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).

It almost seemed incongruous that she would join the world of journalism considering her extremely sheltered life and all the family secrets she became aware of.

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

Given that the game is burdened by the weight of reality through Senua's movement and the level of detail, the mission seems incongruous.

The will to power seems incongruous with impulsive action, but it's through this passage of devilish irony that Crypt of the NecroDancer thrives.

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).

The inwardly looking self - indulgent love of narcissism seems incongruous with contemporary art as a critical practice, and yet it is an unspoken impulse and motivation fundamental to the artist's -LSB-...]

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

No one else seemed to think that this was incongruous.

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.

Yet, if I have to speak as a theologian rather than as a philologian, there are many things in Erasmus which seem to me to be completely incongruous with a knowledge of Christ.»

The increase in demand for natural products seems somewhat incongruous given increased sales of processed and convenience (fast) foods.

To the Ivy League purists accustomed to plaid blankets and the comforting contents of the Thermos, Miami football would seem both unseasonal and incongruous.

This article, it seems to me as a breeder, is intemperate and incongruous with your customary objectivity.

It may seem slightly incongruous to baseball fans to talk football just as the baseball season is getting under way, but on hundreds of college campuses across the country spring football practice holds sway.

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.

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.