congruity
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It was a congruity that called out for someone to remark upon, and Sullivan was just that person.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2021
Is it possible for the two to exist in congruity?
From The Guardian ● Sep. 4, 2017
People nest within like-minded social networks and then get social credit by amplifying their congruity.
From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2016
In clear, declarative prose, it dips readers’ toes into stereotype threat and confirmation bias, role congruity theory, cortisol and stress studies and prospect theory.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2016
Into his lips is put, with a fine disregard of congruity, an eloquent speech, which begins in praise of debt, and ends by setting forth the interdependence of all things in the universe.
From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by John Willcock
“Jerusalem” is full of such local arcana; it also demonstrates Moore’s tendency to see deep congruities everywhere.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 8, 2016
Our Churchby Roger Scruton Because of these congruities, I find Scruton's latest book, a paean to Anglicanism, deeply irritating and unsatisfactory.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2013
And in proof of my earnest sympathies with him during the very unequal contest, I will console him with "proprieties," "congruities," "consistencies of figure," and "material images," enough.
Is not the costume of today, with its subtlety and sombre restraint, its quiet congruities of black and white and grey, supremely apt a medium for the expression of modern emotion and modern thought?
From The Works of Max Beerbohm by Sir Max Beerbohm
The old writers on liturgy loved to dwell on pious congruities and parallelisms.
From The Divine Office by Edward J. Quigley
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