In an incongruous touch, posters for the film "The Godfather" were piled against the stairs to make room for stacks of Russian nationalist literature.

Vly bunk was across from the ice machine an incongruous touch, I thought.

There are incongruous modern touches.

It is a strange hybrid, really, two ballets in one with a few surprisingly incongruous touches.

A humorously incongruous touch is her hat, placed on the couch next to her unclothed body as if she had just arrived or was preparing soon to leave.

He raised wistful, light brown eyes to the picture which was the one incongruous touch to the dainty perfection of his octagonal sitting-room.

The main door was sheltered by a portico with tall columns, an incongruous touch of Ancient Greece grafted on to the sprawling modern bungalow.

It was also an incongruous touch, considering the Synthian's strong populist leanings-but of course these children would have no notion of that.

One incongruous touch was the tin military helmets they wore.

Think, too, of such incongruous touches as the Italian tenor's aria in "Rosenkavalier," a parody that invariably brings guffaws in the opera house.