incommensurate

Example Sentences

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Even among those in the novel who have not suffered strokes, language at times is incommensurate with the job it is expected to perform.

From Washington Post

“He sought unprecedented relief, and his team pressed the case in a slapdash manner incommensurate with the gravity of the subject matter.”

From Seattle Times

That didn’t translate into her work being kind — a word that’s almost comically incommensurate with her acerbic narrative voice, the performative “I” she would insert into her essays and profiles.

From New York Times

“The Troubles” seems incommensurate — euphemistic even — as a descriptor of the social fission that cleaved Northern Ireland in the late 20th century.

From Los Angeles Times

But look closer and you’ll see they are always hinting at whatever is incommensurate and unstable at the heart of identity.

From Washington Post