Word: congruous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like a gnarled tree stump, incongruously recalling the hard winds of winter among a bed of spring flowers all heralding the soft days of sunshine ahead. But the sun failed to shine. When the ministers met this week in Copenhagen, therefore, it was the gnarled tree stump that seemed congruous and seasonal, with the spring flowers looking and sounding sadly out of place...
Architect Stone customarily extends his works of art into congruous surroundings of plazas and pools. What isolationism inspired him to louse up the restful mellow of a row of brownstones...
...director, Albert Marre, deserves much credit for his gay coordination of the many buoyant actors and actions, as does Oliver Smith, the designer, for his airy, mobile, imaginatively congruous sets...
GARY MOORE. By limiting his gestures and movements to those he would make in conversation with people only a few feet away, he "keeps his motions congruous with the distance his audiences are from their TV sets" and comes across "as a nice guy in a chat with a neighbor...