Incoherence

//ˌɪnkəʊˈhɪəɹəns//

"Incoherence" in a Sentence (11 examples)

The Philippines is a real hodgepodge, the people, the places, and the languages. This incoherence confuses non-Filipinos. Certainly, the Philippines is not monolithic. The Philippines has high dependency on the Anglosphere, but this affair is changing with the new acquaintances with neighbouring Asian peoples. Previously, there were just two conditions for Filipinos, being in the Philippines and being "stateside," which is now an outmoded paradigm.

It was she who revealed the secret meaning; her skill and ingenuity had given light to the dark mystery, and consistency to its incoherence.

Dangerous incoherence? Fatal unconsciousness? On the one hand, sponsoring progress (artificial intelligence). On the other, the promotion of global destruction (nuclear weapons).

HE DESCENDED, signifieth a voluntarie motion, where as the bodie dead hath neither WILL nor MOTION. […] Though therefore this exposition cannot be charged with falsitie, for Christ was trulie buried; yet may it not bee endured by reason of […] the improprietie and incoherence of the worde, that a deade corps should descend […]

1680, Henry Care, The History of the Damnable Popish Plot, London: B.R. et al., Chapter 23, Section 2, p. 327, […] the said Lane is prevailed with […] to prefer an Indictment against Dr. Oates, for attempting to commit upon him the horrid and detestable sin of Sodomy; but the Grand Jury, by reason of the incoherence and slightness of his Evidence, did not think fit to finde it, but returned an Ignoramus.

Bulstrode went away now without anxiety as to what Raffles might say in his raving, which had taken on a muttering incoherence not likely to create any dangerous belief.

Lily’s head was so heavy with the weight of a sleepless night that the chatter of her companions had the incoherence of a dream.

My grandfather, accustomed to the multifarious conjugations of ancient Greek verbs, had found English, for all its incoherence, a relatively simple tongue to master.

1669, Robert Boyle, “The History of Fluidity and Firmness,” Section 16, in Certain Physiological Essays and Other Tracts, London: Henry Herringman, p. 182, […] if it [Salt-Petre] be beaten into an impalpable powder, this powder, when it is pour’d out, will emulate a Liquor, by reason that the smallness and incoherence of the parts do both make them easie to be put into motion […]

[…] Incoherences in Matter and Suppositions, without Proofs put handsomly together in good Words and a plausible Stile, are apt to pass for strong Reason and good Sense, till they come to be look’d into with Attention.

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This was strangely heightened at times by the ragged Elijah’s diabolical incoherences uninvitedly recurring to me, with a subtle energy I could not have before conceived of.

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