incongruousness
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“It’s this incongruousness of an 85-year-old Jewish grandmother who is speaking truth to power.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2020
And predictably, the media narratives around the women in these stories hinges on the incongruousness of it all.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 24, 2018
It’s precisely that incongruousness, combined with Samberg’s genuine musical abilities, that makes him such an inspired choice in the role.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2016
The boudoir was a large room, repeating on a bigger scale the incongruousness and ill fitting splendor of the others.
From A Sappho of Green Springs by Bret Harte
The worst of it was its utter incongruousness, the best—so Alexina Russell said—that it invariably made you smile, and anything in this weary world that caused a smile was not wholly bad.
From The Pleasant Street Partnership A Neighborhood Story by Frank T. (Frank Thayer) Merrill
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