disjuncture

Example Sentences

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

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2023

“That disjuncture between GDP and how most people feel about the economy is even going to be larger in the coming weeks and months,” said Bivens.

From Reuters • Oct. 29, 2020

The intimacy burns cleanly, drawing its fuel from Romanticist color and movement and its oxygen from modern disjuncture.

From Washington Post • Oct. 30, 2019

But there’s always some kind of disjuncture, a disjuncture that arises from photography’s tendency to show only so much but to often mean much more: A photograph connotes more than it denotes.

From New York Times • May 24, 2018

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