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- noun Plural form of
congruity .
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Stitching together variant forms -- comedic, tragic, satiric, mythic, mimetic, literary, paraliterary -- it seeks to create a Big Picture from the juxtapositions, in the contrasts and congruities born of the seamed structure.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Postmodern(ism) Hal Duncan 2008
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If a surface "message" seems self-evident in the juxtaposition, a deeper, more liminal meaning is coded in the congruities of the two spliced-together scenes (the seam of more abstract continuity between them) and in the negative space between them (the seam defined by their spatio-temporal incongruity).
Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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If a surface "message" seems self-evident in the juxtaposition, a deeper, more liminal meaning is coded in the congruities of the two spliced-together scenes (the seam of more abstract continuity between them) and in the negative space between them (the seam defined by their spatio-temporal incongruity).
Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk Hal Duncan 2008
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Stitching together variant forms -- comedic, tragic, satiric, mythic, mimetic, literary, paraliterary -- it seeks to create a Big Picture from the juxtapositions, in the contrasts and congruities born of the seamed structure.
Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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There are many other congruities between the Omega Point cosmology and Christianity.
The Simulation Argument and Christianity « Anglican Samizdat 2009
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An inquiring look at everyday life in middle America, the film explores the congruities of daily life in an American town Sidney, Ohio.
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When objects are isolated for study the congruities between colors and coloring methods cannot be located.
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I'm fascinated by cultural congruities as well, but then again, I'm a nerd too!
Never Too Late for Luck Mercedes 2008
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Contributions could be minor or heroic, failures could be momentary or disastrous, but each was tangible to the spectators who could sense the game's congruities with their own professional and social lives.
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But yet it must be said, that they are neither severally nor jointly, though in the highest degree, either necessary dispositions, preparations, previous congruities in a way of merit, nor conditions of our justification.
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965
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