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Laundry adorns disintegrating balconies, while in the center of the plaza an incongruous, neoclassical gleaming marble fountain has been installed (it’s an unmitigated disaster in this atmospheric corner of Old Havana).
Thus, in X. fastidiosa the incongruous phylogenetic position of trpR , the redundancy of the trp -linked genes encoding trpAa and trpAb , and the distinct phylogenetic incongruence of the latter gene pair all supported a reasonable possibility of origin by LGT.
It seems incongruous that a character on a children's television show should be identified with such an impersonal thing.
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 splendidly incongruous 20 th -century musical resurrection of Victor Hugo makes me conclude that, when composers set a poet's work to music, the best thing to do is, in the case of a fiasco like Disney's Hunchback , to stay away completely, and in the case of a show like Les Mis , to enjoy the story without paying any attention to the literary art.