juxtapositions

• Or possibly just a sense of humor, because some of the juxtapositions are outright funny, albeit wildly inappropriate in a serious article.
• This can result in some wild juxtapositions--a session on the prose of Loren Eisely followed in short order by a look at the political subtext of David Cronenberg's film, Videodrome ... the neurophysiological mechanics of reading crammed in before a deconstructionist analysis of science fiction ... and on and on. —  Omni: January 1993
• None of the panels had exactly the same shape or layout, and some of the color juxtapositions were almost painful. —  Spinneret
• This produces some interesting juxtapositions: in the chapter on the Sun, the focus is first on Stonehenge, now considered to be a prehistoric astronomical computer; then the discussion shifts to the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, used to classify stars by their luminosity and color; then to Galileo's work on sunspots; and then to the effect of sunspot cycles on terrestrial climate cycles. —  Asimov'sSF,March2008
• Within mounds of presumably rather ordinary archival material, he's found entirely characteristic formal building blocks and juxtapositions: long tracking shots (down streets, through buildings, following people) and prolonged periods with no dialogue or narration, just associational montages where a whole pop song is all you hear. —  The House Next Door

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