congruity
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It was a congruity that called out for someone to remark upon, and Sullivan was just that person.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2021
People nest within like-minded social networks and then get social credit by amplifying their congruity.
From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2016
In clear, declarative prose, it dips readers’ toes into stereotype threat and confirmation bias, role congruity theory, cortisol and stress studies and prospect theory.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2016
Conceptual congruity doesn’t matter much when you’re just trying to snag some cultural cachet with a decent party.
From The Verge ● Jan. 7, 2016
I thought there was a certain congruity between this book and my "Anatomy of Tankards," hence the despatch of the manuscript to York Street.
From Far Off Things by Arthur Machen
“Jerusalem” is full of such local arcana; it also demonstrates Moore’s tendency to see deep congruities everywhere.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 8, 2016
Our Churchby Roger Scruton Because of these congruities, I find Scruton's latest book, a paean to Anglicanism, deeply irritating and unsatisfactory.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2013
Is not the costume of today, with its subtlety and sombre restraint, its quiet congruities of black and white and grey, supremely apt a medium for the expression of modern emotion and modern thought?
From The Works of Max Beerbohm by Sir Max Beerbohm
In certain congruities of dark cloth, in the rigid perfection of his linen, in the symmetry of his glove with his hand, lay the secret of Mr. Brummell's miracles.
From The Works of Max Beerbohm by Sir Max Beerbohm
And in proof of my earnest sympathies with him during the very unequal contest, I will console him with "proprieties," "congruities," "consistencies of figure," and "material images," enough.
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