disjunctivein a sentence
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a disjunctive cocktail of small talk and profundity
disjunctive = lacking connection
- The sudden wave of panic that rose in Langdon was a frenzy of disjunct fears.† (source)
- The sweet intact child with golden ringlets and perfectly paired strong legs, or the dark mute adolescent dragging a stubborn, disjunct half-body.† (source)
- We sense the disjunction between what books ought to be and the function assigned to them here by Forster.† (source)
- Apart from it being tactically the right thing to do, this disjunction between the man and his job helped Comrade Pillai to keep his conscience clear about his own private business dealings with Chacko.† (source)
- The chaplain was the only officer attached to Group Headquarters who did not reside in the moldering red-stone Group Headquarters building itself or in any of the smaller satellite structures that rose about the grounds in disjuncted relationship.† (source)
- I closed my eyes and went over the propositional calculus, trying to visualize the truth . tables for conjunction, disjunction, equivalence, and material implication.† (source)
- I was used to not seeing data from Lieutenant Skaaiat, but this disjunction between her demeanor and the seriousness of the situation—Lieutenant Awn's still-extreme distress, and, to be honest, my own discomfort at events—made her seem oddly flat and unreal to me.† (source)
- Words in debate were one thing, the war quite another, but to Adams independence and the war were never disjunctive.† (source)
- An anaphase calcium signal controls chromosome disjunction.
- Disjuncted sex from love.† (source)
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- …as a result of what Anne said to me, I had gone down to the slums and seen the old man, the not very tall man who had once been stocky but whose face now drooped in puffy gray folds beneath the gray hair, with the steel-rimmed spectacles hanging on the end of the nose, and whose shoulders, thin now and snowed with dandruff, sagged down as with the pull of the apparently disjunctive, careful belly which made the vest of his black suit pop up above the belt and the slack-hanging pants.† (source)
- …saw the black-clothed figure through the dingy glass of the door; then the door pushed open and he entered, older than I remembered, the white patches of hair hanging damply from under the old Panama hat, the steel-rimmed spectacles dangerously loose on the nose and the pale eyes behind, the shoulders stooped and drawn together as though pulled by the obscene, disjunctive, careful weight of the belly, as though it were the heavy tray, or satchel, worn by some hawker on a street corner.† (source)
- …to him, which is Your gracious self, embrace but my direction,— If your more ponderous and settled project May suffer alteration,—on mine honour, I'll point you where you shall have such receiving As shall become your highness; where you may Enjoy your mistress,—from the whom, I see, There's no disjunction to be made, but by, As heavens forfend! your ruin,—marry her; And,—with my best endeavours in your absence— Your discontenting father strive to qualify, And bring him up to liking.† (source)
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