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The Venetians took his remains to Venice when they fled the island and the church was rebuilt as a mosque after an earthquake in 1856, giving the incongruous but beautiful decoration on the outer walls.
(Less slick is the home page of the Bosnia-Herzegovina embassyin Washington, D.C.) There is an incongruous pride in technical prowess.
Humor is defined in the OED as that quality of action, speech, or writing which excites amusement and in MWIII as that expression of ideas in a happening, an action, a situation, or an expression of ideas which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous.
The five-tiered auditorium, with its incongruous modern ceiling painted by Chagall in 1964, holds a mere 2,000 spectators.
The book's title is incongruous, since the whole point of the Heritage Foundation is that ideas alone have little power without a big push.