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The UK fields its own big guns with Judge Jules, Lisa Lashes, Alex Kidd and a slightly incongrous DJ set by indie band Mystery Jets, plus sets by local mixmasters Stuart Millar, Fergie and Gleave Dobbin.
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A common man approach to wine, however much I enjoyed it, seemed a bit incongrous for the setting.
Jay McInerney will be the WSJ wine columnist | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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Second point: I wasn't having a pop at the NOTW's reporting, but the sight of an old, blazer wearing man in a grand old building reading the screws struck me as incongrous.
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The reshuffle pieces - however incongrous - may be falling into place.
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The reshuffle pieces - however incongrous - may be falling into place.
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The reshuffle pieces - however incongrous - may be falling into place.
Latest reshuffle news: Denham to Health; Johnson to Home Office 2009
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As we get on the edge of the village there's this wonderfully incongrous neighbourhood watch sign.
Archive 2009-03-01 Brian Clegg 2009
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The reason your war hero (kerry) lost was beacuse he was a traitor after vietnam just like hanoi jane fonda (yes I remember that in person) and was so incongrous and ambiguous on his positions tha America was (thankfully) afraid to vote for him.
Think Progress » Coulter plagiarism charges are being investigated 2006
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But in his next, surrealist-influenced writings, "Un río, un amor" (1929) and "Los placeres prohibidos" (1931) (both collected in La realidad y el deso 1936), he began to find his true voice, experimenting with incongrous word choices and chance-oriented methods of composition.
Luis Cernuda (y Bidon) greenintegerblog 2008
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The look is incongrous and just plain silly on a man.
Yes, I've seen it. You can stop alerting me. Ann Althouse 2008
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