What made the human soul feel the necessity of a faith in God, but the apparent incongruity of certain dispensations in this world with the idea of God, with the law written in the heart? Is not the reconciling of these facts or 'phænomena' with the divine attributes, one of the purposes of a revealed religion?

Settle down behind the parapet, and the little incongruities of a trench, paltry without the intimacy of men and locality, make for humour no less than in a shop or a factory.

It seemed to him that the mere incongruity of the spectacle must inevitably attract crowds, gradually blocking the street, and that when some individual not absolutely a fool in art, had perceived the quality of the picturewell, then the trouble of public curiosity and of journalistic inquisitiveness would begin.

The interior is remarkable for the painful incongruity of the chancela pseudo-classical structure, built in 1743, to replace the dismantled monastic choir.

There are others, however, which can not be introduced in our system without singular incongruity and the production of much mischief, and this I conceive to be one.

"It's one of the affair's conceded incongruities.

If I had known her only as Cowper didwith a child's recollectionthere might have been some thread, some faint but comprehensible link, between us; but now all that I felt was the curious incongruity.

There is a decided incongruity between Theodore as a manas Theodore, in fineand the dear fellow as the intellectual agent, confidant, complaisant, purveyor, panderwhat you willof a battered old cynic and dilettantea worldling if there ever was one.

"In the 'Decay of Lying,' Mr. Tutt," said Tutt thoughtfully, as he dropped in for a moment's chat after lunch, "Oscar Wilde says, 'There is no essential incongruity between crime and culture.'

The everlasting incongruities of such a relationhe sixty and she nineteensoon led to another divorce.

This most evident incongruity arises from the combination that it expresses of the Gothic and Byzantine styles.

So Theophil read the hallowed nonsense once again, struck with the fantastic incongruity of the moment.

This, however, was a dilemma, the vexations of which wore off as places were apportioned and the Ministry got to its work; there was a more fatal incongruity in his position.

There was a frightful incongruity between civilization and his lifebetween broad, flat, comfortable, every-day, police-regulated civilization, and the hideous drama in which he was suddenly a principal actor.

Elsewhere the walls are covered with books, arranged neither in formal regularity nor quite helter-skelter, but in a sort of genial incongruity, which tells that sooner or later each volume feels sure of leaving the ranks and returning into different company.

The savage is blinded to the glaring incongruities of his tribal ideas not so much by habit or reverence; it is simply that the mere possibility of such a thing as analysis has never occurred to him.

The humour of the fifth is, to a far larger extent, of the creative and dramatic order; the ever-delightful collision of intellectual incongruities in the persons of the two brothers Shandy gives animation to the volume almost from beginning to end.

By no other writer besides Sterne, perhaps, since the days of the Spanish humourist, have the vast incongruities of human character been set forth with so masterly a hand.

I had never thought of him as an urgent lover; even now, although I could still feel his hand quivering on my arm, I could have laughed at the ludicrous incongruity of romance, and that stolid thick-set figure.

It was a great stone fireplace that rose in massive incongruity at the side of the little white cottage.

But the venerable incongruity of the writer and his work confronted her intriguingly.

And thus the two men lived in an economical comradeship, all the firmer, perhaps, for their mutual incongruities.

The occasional incongruities struck them all, more than the positive general faults and Sir George Templemore did justice to the truth, by admitting frankly, the danger he had been in of forming a too hasty opinion.

It is no longer dependent upon the mere trick and quibble of words, or the odd and meaningless incongruities in things that strike us as "funny."

We ought not then to decry refinement nor deem all connection of art with nature an offensive incongruity.