disjunction

Example Sentences

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In both memoirs, there’s a touching disjunction between the face on the cover and the voice in your ear.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

It is a story of motherhood and disjunction, of self-making and villainy, of a remarkable power depicted and deployed on an intimate scale.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2023

It’s tempting to point out the disjunction between the author’s fundamental outsider stance and his postmortem embrace by the institutional intelligentsia.

From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2023

Through the disjunction between the narration and the street scenes, Akerman in effect divides viewers’ attentions the way hers were presumably divided.

From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2022

The disjunction between the prince’s all-too-human genetic inheritance and his all-too-exalted political inheritance must have seemed particularly evident to the critics of the monarchy.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee