disjunction

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In both memoirs, there’s a touching disjunction between the face on the cover and the voice in your ear.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

This disjunction from reality can border on disdain for it.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2022

Through the disjunction between the narration and the street scenes, Akerman in effect divides viewers’ attentions the way hers were presumably divided.

From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2022

It was meant admiringly, and Schjeldahl is absolutely right: A disjunction between intentions and effects can produce aesthetic dynamite.

From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2022

The disjunction between the prince’s all-too-human genetic inheritance and his all-too-exalted political inheritance must have seemed particularly evident to the critics of the monarchy.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee