disjunction

Example Sentences

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There is a disjunction at the heart of children’s literature.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

Guest curator Alissa Anderson Campbell identifies the artist’s radical political views, but their disjunction with his commitment to traditional, even conservative painting styles remains a conundrum.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2022

It was meant admiringly, and Schjeldahl is absolutely right: A disjunction between intentions and effects can produce aesthetic dynamite.

From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2022

Thank you for helping us to awaken from that disjunction and please, for our sake, go deeper.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2021

Apart from it being tactically the right thing to do, this disjunction between the man and his job helped Comrade Pillai to keep his conscience clear about his own private business dealings with Chacko.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy