Such celebrations of secular glory might seem incongruous inside a church, even in cases where the celebrated were conventionally religious.
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It feels incongruous in a world of banner ads and mailing lists.
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If the latter seems incongruous in a car-dominated nation, it is largely because, shrewdly, he laid optic-fibre networks beneath the tracks he owned to create the giant telecommunications network, Qwest.
Placing a seemingly incongruous space-age pod on a mountain top in the middle of the Alps is something Lovegrove has no qualms about doing.
One of the items for sale, and that seemed to elicit as much excitement on Mr. Payard's part as his dessert inspiration candles (Oatmeal Lavender, Passion Fruit and Coconut Lime) or decadent Baba au Rhum in a jar, was an incongruous piece of cutlery in a presentation box.
It looked especially incongruous there, a piece of Deco art in a Bauhaus modern Silicon Valley Eichler home.
It's an incongruous setting: a warehouse above a Glasgow fish wholesaler.
Critics say they find it somewhat incongruous that that a government funded body is being led by a former punk - and that much of the underlying basis of the punk scene was founded on anti capitalism.
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Brother Gerasimi Otarashvili has a big chestnutcoloured beard, a black robe and a slightly incongruous mobile phone, which he puts to one side as he pours me a glass of the 2009 rkatsiteli.
Turin had great fun penning his reviews, giving raves to fragrances he liked ("Thanks to Rive Gauche, mortals can at last know the scent of the goddess Diana's bath soap") and slamming those he hated ("57 for Her is a sad little thing, an incongruous dried-prunes note with a metallic edge that manages the rare feat of being at once cloying and harsh").
Then, from around a corner appeared an incongruous sight: wedged at the end of the gravel road was a gleaming new train station.
It seems incongruous that Khan would flash a photographer the "V" sign -- for victory -- as his boat was going down the rapids, weeks before he carried out a mass murder.
Neither as individual terms nor as a composite result - iPad Mini - did they "create a unique, incongruous, or non-descriptive meaning in relation to the goods being small handheld mobile devices comprising tablet computers capable of providing internet access".
An upbeat number followed by a selloff could signal that traders are taking the seemingly incongruous perspective that better readings on the economy are a negative for the market.
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"At first, I thought it was incongruous, " admitted Harold Terens, a computer software manufacturer from nearby Hewlett.
And the incongruous image still in my mind of a Kurdish woman and her children living amid the former scene of horror.
Benanti: We're just trying to take two typically incongruous art forms and bring them together in a way that feels meaningful.
Incongruous as it may seem, Sheikh Mohammed is a popular figure in the picturesque upstate town.
His clothes were as ugly and incongruous as his two-tone swimsuit a baggy shirt, which looked black from my balcony but was probably patterned, and a pair of light-colored slacks that appeared to be a very pale blue, though that was possibly a reflection from the nearly invisible water.
Pasted on the outside of nine tall white panels, some walled at right angles to form squares, are large black-and-white images of incongruous and somewhat inscrutable things, including the front of a camera and two men conversing.
He said a big settlement without an admonition was "counterintuitive and incongruous, " he said.
Nonetheless, it might be seen as incongruous that Austen's fandom is so extensive in the US, a nation founded on the rejection of aristocracy and old world manners and traditions.
At a time of decentralisation, the committee said it was "incongruous" for the government to be planning to incorporate housing benefit - currently administered by local authorities - into the Universal Credit.
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