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Yet to me the incongruity was intense, almost surreal.† (source)
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The only incongruities on this striking corporal were his hands—huge, brutish, animal things that one man would liken to paws.† (source)
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I still haven't flinched, though I'm desperately trying to process the incongruity.† (source)
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We emphasized the incongruity of not allowing children to smoke, drink, vote, drive without restrictions, give blood, buy guns, and a range of other behaviors because of their well-recognized lack of maturity and judgment while simultaneously treating some of the most at-risk, neglected, and impaired children exactly the same as full-grown adults in the criminal justice system.† (source)
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Our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes.† (source)
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After a few seconds, I was able to bite through it, and I closed my eyes, trying to ignore the scent of clean male, the feel of his skin against mine, the incongruity of what I was doing.† (source)
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The incongruity was startling.† (source)
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Rachel continued to be happy, involved with life, only slightly confused by the incongruities which faced her each morning when she awoke.† (source)
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Perhaps it was just the incongruity of seeing him aloft and stricken, since he was by nature someone who carried others.† (source)
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As a consequence there is little uniformity in the spelling of Sherpa words or names; Tengboche, for instance, is written variously as Tengpoche or Thyangboche, and similar incongruities crop up in spelling most other Sherpa words.† (source)
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Perhaps he wants to accentuate the comic or ironic incongruity between the brevity of the sexual act and its consequences.† (source)
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All his letters show is an enormous confusion of contradictions and incongruities and divergences and exceptions to any rule he formulated about the things he observed.† (source)
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Yet when he opened his eyes, the annoying incongruity was still there.† (source)
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He observed with the eye of an accountant, with unassailable accuracy but no interest in the delicious, gossipy detail, or the incongruities or neuroses of the characters he so drily introduced.† (source)
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I almost want to laugh at the incongruity of it.† (source)
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Finery laid off is as unappetizing as the remains of a feast, and it occurred to Lily that, at home, her maid's vigilance had always spared her the sight of such incongruities.† (source)
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