Word: congruously
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After the announcement, the audience is asked to vote. At the play's premiere, the audience broke into impassioned shouts of "Strike! Strike!" In behavior more congruous to a political rally than a Broadway opening, the uproarious crowd stormed the stage, demanding to meet the play's author...
...labyrinthine confusion of modern urban streets. At a time when the Tea Party becomes a subject for T-shirts and when drinking mugs are emblazoned with the faces of our favorite patriots the appeal to the great ideals that created our country" is as un congruous as it is predictable...
...acts and experiences don't happen. They are impossible. They conflict with the description of reality we've been fed since we were little babies. So Don Juan just seems a crazy old Indian. But in his world, his way of knowledge is superb and absolutely congruous. My task was to grasp the units of meaning proper to sorcery, and learn Don Juan's way of describing the world...
...like students' dress at all," the rabbi explained, "they should have more respect for college--not meaning you, you're wearing a tie, a jacket, and your hair is combed, you washed your face this morning--I don't like those big beards on boys; they don't look congruous to me--although the Bible says you shouldn't cut off your beard or the edge of your hair. the Nazarene. But we were brought up ... not to wear torn shabby clothes. Certainly the girls with the mini-skirts are really ridiculous in some cases. And the boys...
...only heart strings, chokes as her beans-and-mush menus give way to roast pigs, shank sausage and plump capons. She likes to dress like a ragpicker; the baron makes her buy the latest imported fineries. Ippolita doles out fourth-rate wine to the servants in "a quantity congruous for Christians of base extraction." The baron invites them to lap up casks of vintage Vaiano. When the baron goes off to war, Ippolita, with Balzacian parsimony, delightedly returns to her beans and mush, pawns her fine dresses and lights one dim lamp of an evening...