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  • Teddy says that Hart has arrived to be with Castlemaine, and I find the whole affair too incongrously bothersome to witness.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • Teddy says that Hart has arrived to be with Castlemaine, and I find the whole affair too incongrously bothersome to witness.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • Finally, we have the most incongrously upbeat track of the entire week: Kid Creole's disco dissing of an FBI snitch.

    Readers recommend songs about villains: The results 2010

  • Taylors Ferry Road in SW Portland is part of the northern border of this district, incongrously bringing the southwest corner of Portland into it.

    When Republicans Attack (Each Other) 2009

  • I've been incongrously excited about this game all year.

    Free Realms 2009

  • The hairdressers' had loads of Beatles photos up on the walls, together with an incongrously positioned group shot of the staff meeting Jason McAteer and Jamie Redknapp.

    Archive 2005-11-01 Alistair Myles 2005

  • The hairdressers' had loads of Beatles photos up on the walls, together with an incongrously positioned group shot of the staff meeting Jason McAteer and Jamie Redknapp.

    Suburban skies Alistair Myles 2005

  • Modern Place in Historic Lincoln Heights: In Lincoln Heights, one of Los Angeles's oldest neighborhoods, two modern houses sit incongrously side by side, rising from neighborhood of squat bungalows.

    Apartment Therapy Main 2009

  • A claustrophobic mesh of increasingly overwhelming sample-scree, birdsong, droning post-punk bass and incongrously pretty, glacial guitars, it features a list cataloguing the impending doom, from 'the price of bread went up 5 pence today' to 'foreigners get hushed-up trials', mass graves, immigrants kicked to death, the rise of obscurantism and barbarity, the sense (as with most of D. I's work) of a queasy horror at all that is solid melting into air.

    sit down man, you're a bloody tragedy 2008

  • Most of Limp Bizkit's fun songs shoehorned in incongrously slow, serious bridges, so it was pretty shocking that they managed to make a whole song out of one of those brooding grooves that turned out to be one of their best hits.

    Idolator: Music News, Reviews, And Gossip 2008

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    July 21, 2013