Which preposition to use with incongruity

of Occurrences 57%

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

in Occurrences 24%

The antique sombre uniformity of the furniture as a whole was broken at odd intervals by several articles of bizarre modernity, including a few daring French prints, which struck an odd note of incongruity in such a room.

between Occurrences 15%

"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.'

with Occurrences 3%

So-called "secular" and godless alternatives may be offered; but their incongruity with the whole evolution of humanity from prehistoric animism to the higher Pantheism will make their doom short and sure.

as Occurrences 3%

It served by its very incongruity as a suitable thread for a catalogue of facts and fiction.

to Occurrences 2%

Such a result is no more to be expected from faculties on the strain to find some small hook by which they may attach the lowest incongruity to the most momentous subject, than it is to be expected of a sharper, watching for gulls in a great political assemblage, that he will notice the blundering logic of partisan speakers, or season his observation with the salt of historical parallels.

at Occurrences 1%

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

on Occurrences 1%

In the Louis Quinze, gilt-bedded, gilt-framed, gilt-edged bridal-suite de luxe on the seventeenth floor, Mrs. Charley Cox sat rigid enough and in shirt-waisted incongruity on the lower curl of a gilt divan that squirmed to represent the letter S. "Charleyare yousorry?" He wriggled out of his dust-coat, tossing it on the gilt-canopied bed and crossed to her, lifting off her red sailor.

than Occurrences 1%

As to the incongruity of his contour and other little accidents of physique, he is probably no more aware that they will affect others as incongruities than Armida is conscious how much her rouge provokes our notice of her wrinkles, and causes us to mention sarcastically that motherly age which we should otherwise regard with affectionate reverence.

from Occurrences 1%

To which may be added that the evolution-hypothesis presents no radical incongruities from a moral point of view.

Which preposition to use with  incongruity