disjuncture

Example Sentences

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Her style mixes straightforward language and confessional frankness with sudden disjunctures and imagines mundane scenes into which strange images intercede.

From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2021

He had been an owner for only three years, but the difference had come to seem like one of the great disjunctures of his life.

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2018

But despite its sense of mission, the film suffers from soapy excesses and narrative disjunctures.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2015

The embellishments may involve a modest trill or other inflection of a note; the actual addition of notes, filling in gaps between others or creating purposeful disjunctures; or even big cadenza-like flourishes.

From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2013

Friedrich, vividly awake to every chance, foresaw, in case of such disjunctures in Italy, good likelihood of quarrel there.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Carlyle, Thomas