disjunction

Example Sentences

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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

That disjunction between family lore and Hollywood reality compelled him to write his new book, “Competing With Idiots,” a subjective dual portrait of the Brothers Mankiewicz.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2021

Thank you for helping us to awaken from that disjunction and please, for our sake, go deeper.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2021

You get the sense that the division of selves is therapeutic and also artistic: reveal the disjunction so that you can address it.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 17, 2019

Apart from it being tactically the right thing to do, this disjunction between the man and his job helped Comrade Pillai to keep his conscience clear about his own private business dealings with Chacko.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy