Atticus, who visited Cicero at Tusculum, had doubtless pointed out the incongruity between the known attainments of Catulus and Lucullus, and the parts they were made to take in difficult philosophical discussions.
The incongruityof their position did not trouble him greatly, however.
As for its metre, the heroic has been assigned it from experience; were any one to attempt a narrative poem in some one, or in several, of the other metres, the incongruity of the thing would be apparent.
The incongruity of the two elements to each other makes the relation of the spiritual idea to objective reality a negative one.
Thus the meaning can never be completely molded into the expression, and, notwithstanding all the aspiration and effort, the incongruity between the spiritual idea and the sensuous form remains insuperable.
If we take a certain incongruity for granted, the guilelessness of it only charms us.
I frequently saw old ruined houses of which there only remained two walls of stone, to which the nomads had added two walls of canvas making an exact cube in form with the most startling incongruity in colour.
It is an insensibility not to an accidental incongruity but to an artistic contrast.
The combination of these bright patterns in the sunshine with the awful shadow in the centre is certainly an incongruity in the sense of a contrast.
The proposition seemed a matter of course; no incongruity struck either.
The Liberty frocks and flopping hats that her soul loathed seemed to give an edged incongruity to her pleasant round face, with its rosy cheeks and blue eyes, and mouth that drooped pathetically at the corners.
With strangest dream-like incongruityand unfitness, the thing beside them was a dark bedstead, with carved posts and low wooden tester, richly carved!
Die hard, and you won't die at all" is really a bull; and the incongruity of ideas might well be expressed by a dash before "and.
The incongruityof the and relation becomes apparent upon reading the first and second clauses with "and" between them.
He is half-bewildered with the incongruity of the claim; and yet there is a certain propriety that a wild enthusiast should assert his sovereignty over a nation of bigots; so he sarcastically adopts the title.
And this incongruity held him captive to the last, even beyond the gates of death.
Never was this characteristic incongruity of the Gospel more signally manifested than in the preaching of St. Paul at Athens.
There was an old saying, now unhappily quite grotesque in its incongruity with facts, that "an Englishman's word is as good as his bond.
There could be no question as to the utter incongruity of any dramatic picture of ordinary events, or ordinary personages, finding expression in musical utterance.
She had lost her look of incongruity with her surroundings.
But the committee did mention, among themselves, the incongruity between the actual condition of St. Etienne's streets and the wisdom of the Solons.
There was always such incongruity between the excellence of the comestible and the barbaric quaintness of the receptacle that happened to contain it.
Now, his sublime indignation was roused to the utmost at the spectacle of such an outrageous incongruity as an umbrella, in the pure and holy atmosphere of our shanty.
If to be in the same plane and never to meet were all that is meant by being parallel, we should feel no incongruity in speaking of a curve as parallel to its asymptote.
The incongruity of erecting into a summum genus the class which forms the tenth category is manifest.
If the Apostles had been even a few days there, the incongruity of the speech would remain undiminished; for the 120 brethren who are said to have been present must chiefly have been residents in Jerusalem, and cannot be.
The Synoptist who is so lavish in his use of miraculous agency naturally sees no incongruity here.
Regarded as complete, their incongruity is intensified, but considered as abridged, they have lost in the process all representative character and historical fitness.
Cass felt an uncomfortable sense of incongruity in himself, in his story, in his treasure, to this temple of disenchanting realism.
Completely enervated, Mildred felt again that sense of fantastic incongruity between the subject of her late discourse and its auditor.
This motive excuses me to myself for the incongruity of my procedures.
With them he could prove the incongruity of the partnership that had already begun to exist between him and the Missioner.
He sensed the incongruity of it, the misplacement of his overgrown body in this playhouse thing, and he grinned through the trickles of wet that ran down his face, and tried to see.
Over and over again he whispered to himself the impossibility of it, the absurdity of it, the utterincongruity of it.
