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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another incongruity was that between de Gaulle's ambition and the resources at his disposal.
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Behind their departing backs, Ladislaw laughs at the incongruity of the engaged couple.
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Like his entire tenure as chairman, the scene had an element of incongruity that amounted to the surreal.
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One was the incongruity between de Gaulle's ambitions and the needs of a nation on the breadline.
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There is another sort of incongruity in the materials.
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There were fatal incongruities about grandeur in the circumstances of 1944-46.
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Thus Hazlitt piles up instances of how humour results from surprise, incongruity , absurdity and misunderstanding.