All 9 Uses of
incongruous
in
Atlas Shrugged
- Her leg, sculptured by the tight sheen of the stocking, its long line running straight, over an arched instep, to the tip of a foot in a high-heeled pump, had a feminine elegance that seemed out of place in the dusty train car and oddly incongruous with the rest of her.†
Chpt 1.1
- "If everybody could pull for a common purpose, then nobody would have to be hurt!" he cried suddenly, in a tone of incongruous despair; he saw Taggart watching him and added, pleading, "I wish we didn't have to hurt anybody."†
Chpt 1.3
- It seemed startling in that office, incongruous with the sternness of the rest: it was a touch of sensuality.†
Chpt 1.4 *
- When the green light of a signal appeared by the track, it gave them a point to reach and pass, but-incongruous in the midst of the floating dissolution-it brought them no sense of relief.†
Chpt 2.10
- It seemed to him for an instant that he saw an incongruous look on the worn, cynical faces of the newsmen, a look that was not quite respect, expectation or hope, but more like an echo of these, like a faint reflection of the look they might have worn in their youth on hearing the name of Robert Stadler.†
Chpt 3.3
- She could not decipher the expression of the eyes, it seemed incongruous, it resembled the calm, not of a woman, but of a scholar, it had that peculiar, luminous quality which is the fearlessness of satisfied knowledge.†
Chpt 3.3
- It was her poise that irritated him most; she was no longer an incongruous little freak, dwarfed by the luxury of the residence which a famous artist had designed; she matched it.†
Chpt 3.4
- She asked, in a dead voice that had the incongruous sound of common sense, "I suppose you will now want us to get divorced?"†
Chpt 3.4
- She glanced at him: the statement was so oddly perceptive and so incongruously irrelevant.†
Chpt 3.5
Definition:
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(incongruous) out of place; or lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness