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

And it’s a glaring kind of disjuncture for anyone, I think, with an ethical sensibility,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2021

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

“In many ways, the subject of Fred’s films is the surrealism of life,” Morris said, “this disjuncture between how we see ourselves and a hidden, underlying reality that at least partially emerges.”

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2020

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