incongruence

• “An incongruence occurs when, for instance, old, experienced workers are assigned to young, inexperienced supervisors.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Bass Handbook of Leadership

• “This kind of incongruence may not touch you in the short term, but in the long term it may impact us all.”

  The Huffington Post: Jonathan Ellerby: Protect What You Love: Re-Define Your Health, Tend to Your Planet

• “My transition is (in part) about ending that incongruence and bringing my gender dissonance within manageable levels.”

  Gender activism begins with gender rage

• “Another example is Barbara Bradley Hagerty, a journalist and author, who sees no necessary incongruence between neurological activity and corresponding spiritual experiences.”

  The Huffington Post: Victor Udoewa: Does Science Make Belief In God Obsolete?

• “One way to see something that's in such a state of confusion, contradiction, and incongruence is as inevitably headed for disaster.”

  The Huffington Post: Vanessa Andris: Greece: Never on a Sunday But Bail Us Out on Monday? Defeat or Development

• “Best of all, though, is the incongruence of his choice of direction with respect to the giant authoritative arrow.”

  Moonwalking into the second dimension

• “She probably also eats shellfish, wears more than one fiber at a time, and sees no incongruence whatsoever.”

  Think Progress » Miss Beverly Hills tries to one-up Carrie Prejean, says it’s divine law that gays be put to death.

• “There is an obvious incongruence between what our religious faiths require of us and what we can deliver as human beings.”

  The Huffington Post: Iyanla Vanzant: How Spiritual Leaders Get Through What They're Going Through: Lie or Leave

• “There have been silences in my own life when there were times of incongruence, most extended during my 20′s.”

  On E M Forster « Tales from the Reading Room

• “           A quick study of the young girl yielded a baffling incongruence: her clothes had been worn to the point of having holes in the expected places; her hair was unkempt; her hands and face dirty, yet she spoke an upper-class English, as though she attended the finest schools available.”

  Fictionaut: Nine and Five

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