disjuncture

Example Sentences

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This disjuncture of sound and visuals forces you to listen to the women with a rare attention — not just to their words, but all that is contained in their voices.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2023

Incidentally, I suspect there is a strange disjuncture between all this parliamentary theatre and most of you reading this.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2023

The disjuncture between story and song only heightens the staccato feeling.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2022

In “Democracy Rules” he turns his attention to democracy itself, and the threat posed by the disjuncture between citizens and the critical infrastructure of democracy.

From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2021

One might think that the historians of technology would have wanted to question this disjuncture between theory and practice—but at first they were the same people as the historians of science.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton