Ordinarily, such sequences produce only bathos when their final terms are soincongruouslyweighty (and, as in the case of "sacrilege," imperfectly rhymed).
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Incongruously, it would imply that underlying coda geminates lose their geminate status whenever they are placed in intervocalic position.
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But we should expect older and newer technologies, like older and newer economic practices and mentalities, to co-exist, howeverincongruously, during a time of change.
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Even moreincongruouslyit had made him a figure to be courted, albeit not always with great appetite, by the cultural and artistic intelligentsia that had heretofore scorned him.
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What stuck out ratherincongruouslyin the two headings were the repeated apostrophes, which were large enough to be cut out and mounted by collectors of such ephemera.
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Combined with their championing of working-class popular culture and (moreincongruously) with their espousal of social reforms like old-age pensions, was a definite and electorally effective liberal message.
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Kerman rests content, it seems, with his original view that the libretto is cynical and the musicincongruouslyprofound.
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They are small passenger cars and, ratherincongruously, sodium peroxide.
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Then, perhaps slightlyincongruously, at the end of his speech he made an announcement in considerable detail regarding the transference of certain research laboratories.
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Stanwyck, he concluded, wasincongruouslychipper early in the film, while giving a stilted, distracted performance in the second half.
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It consisted of drooping headlamps and taillights, with sharp angles employedincongruouslyto rounded surfaces.
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The ruins of a large mansion from the empire still, ratherincongruously, remain.
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He intersperses the comedy with occasional songs, both serious and humorous, in anincongruouslyfine light baritone voice.
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This season's score is sometimesincongruouslyserious (which actually adds to the humor on occasion), and its fan service level is orders of magnitude higher.
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He puts a blue whale into his graphics,incongruouslylying alongside the girl and her cat, to give an amusing idea of relative sizes.
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