How to Use disjunction in a Sentence

disjunction

noun
  • There seems here a disjunction between how people act, and what people say.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 July 2012
  • 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 disjunction of the gorgeous and the gag-inducing is one of the film's hallmarks.
    — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2017
  • 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
  • Sherman sees the disjunctions in her new work’s faces almost as an exercise in cubism.
    — Nancy Princenthal, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2024
  • In context, this disjunction seemed like a feature—an echo of the subject matter—rather than like a malfunction.
    — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The same disjunction is present, but less comic, in the way that Dorothy processes her miscarriage.
    — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2021
  • These views may point up a disjunction between what companies want from employees – and what younger entrants into the workforce want.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • As Burton suggests, there is more at stake in the opposing elements of Bove’s sculptures than just formal disjunction.
    — Gordon Hughes, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026
  • This element of disjunction has become a cliché of postmodern architecture.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Republic, 2 May 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Why is there such a disjunction between the genetic parity in terms of ancestry and cultural skew toward their Iberian forebears?
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2011
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Yet all the growing mounds of evidence and ever more refined expertise can’t make up for a stubborn disjunction separating design, courtesy, and compliance.
    — Curbed, 24 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • Her demeanor and her look were at distinct odds with the details of her testimony — and this disjunction itself, this striking contrast, threw her words in sharp relief, intensifying their impact.
    — New York Times, 30 June 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • So Sacco depicts both variations, while drawing out their disjunctions through commentary and supplementary reporting.
    — Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2025
  • 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

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