How to Use disjunction in a Sentence

disjunction

noun

• The disjunction of the gorgeous and the gag-inducing is one of the film's hallmarks.
  — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2017
• The disjunction opens up a vast and chilly space through which these characters wander as if lost in a dream.
  — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2018
• The problem with this section isn’t the disjunction or shift in tone, but the sheer talkiness of the scenes between Lucy and Dylan.
  — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2023
• Not that there was anything wrong with those things as such, but the disjunction between values and action made my skin crawl.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2012
• There seems here a disjunction between how people act, and what people say.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 July 2012
• The same disjunction is present, but less comic, in the way that Dorothy processes her miscarriage.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2021
• In Jacobs’s previous film, The Lovers, the storytelling seemed to be going nowhere, but this film finds drollery in the disjunction between life and relationships.
  — Armond White, National Review, 23 Apr. 2021
• The paintings, rendered in heavy layers of acrylic, resin, and spray paint, have been mounted in baroque antique frames, creating a tongue-in-cheek disjunction between high and lowbrow.
  — Keegan Brady, Rolling Stone, 27 May 2023
• The picture is mostly brown and black and has the strumming power, clattering dark shadows, and internal disjunction of a cave painting.
  — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 6 Apr. 2021
• In that sense, there’s always been this disjunction between the business and the platform and its existence as this news generation machine.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 14 Dec. 2022
• There’s now a radical disjunction between public celebrations of big givers and their gifts, on the one hand, and a growing body of critique of philanthropy, on the other.
  — Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
• One of the most striking disjunctions is between the viciousness of the close-quarter fighting and the willingness of both sides to allow military and civilian medics to continue their work.
  — Daniel Todman, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2018
• It’s not easy to negotiate the disjunction between opera speed and Hollywood pacing.
  — Vulture, 25 Apr. 2022
• The quotations from Crane’s harsh, haiku-like poems spit out from Auster’s gently loquacious pages in unmissable disjunction.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
• Because this was, indeed, a panel of very smart women, the disjunction presented by that stray remark did not go entirely unnoticed.
  — Amy Davidson, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2017
• The average Destroyer song is lit up frequently by disjunction: the little sparks that pop out when one order of logic gets rammed into another.
  — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
• The video leaves you free to wonder about both the potential contradictions of activist pop and the queasy disjunction between moral concern and capitalist ambition.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 11 May 2018
• This disjunction from reality can border on disdain for it.
  — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2022
• That kind of disjunction harks back to the medium's heyday a century ago, as a Dada vehicle of the politically infused absurd.
  — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• Westerners urgently need to learn from that disjunction.
  — Curbed, 15 Mar. 2022
• One reason for this disjunction between the promise of GWAS and the concrete tangible outcomes is that many traits/diseases of interest may be polygenic and quantitative.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2011
• The disjunction between the telling of such violence — written calmly, as if recounting a routine morning coffee — and the content of the acts themselves, reinforces the strange partition between past and present.
  — Sean McCoy, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
• Thoreau felt the disjunction acutely, and his journal lays bare both his fascinated scrutiny of the most intricate factual details and his fear of losing his grasp of nature or the cosmos as a whole.
  — Andrea Wulf, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
• Though the feelings come fast, Musto sings in an unemotional tone, and the instrumentals rarely alter or shift dynamics, so there's a strange disjunction between medium and message.
  — Elias Leight, Billboard, 12 May 2017
• Still, if past and present, fiction and nonfiction never fully cohere, that formal disjunction nonetheless achieves its own strange power.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2021
• Last season, Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine just as the Milan shows were getting underway, and the extreme disjunction of war and wardrobe frivolity was both impossible to ignore and hard to reconcile.
  — New York Times, 7 Sep. 2022
• The objects themselves are very ordinary—how significant is the disjunction in the story between the ordinary and the extraordinary?
  — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
• Current practices often hinge on bad data, an approach that exacerbates the disjunction fueling the patchwork of standards against which to measure and report.
  — Andrew Bruce, Forbes, 11 June 2021
• Despite the apparent disjunction between Mr. Bersani’s literary criticism and his work on gay identity, there are themes running through both.
  — Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2022
• We’ve often noted — and written about — the frequent disjunction between the sleek, luxurious places where the festivals happen and the misery depicted onscreen.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024