Literary notes about Disparate (AI summary)
In literature, "disparate" is often employed to denote elements that are fundamentally distinct or disconnected, serving to emphasize contrasts between characters, ideas, or even entire cultural or philosophical systems. For instance, authors highlight differences by pairing characters or traits that, despite coexistence, stem from inherently unalike backgrounds [1], [2], or by juxtaposing completely unrelated processes in order to probe deeper thematic dilemmas [3], [4]. At times, the term carries an ironic or humorous tint when referring to absurd or incongruous situations [5], [6], while in other contexts it underscores the unavoidable clash between divergent systems of thought or expression [7], [8]. This versatile application enriches the narrative texture and invites readers to consider how seemingly unrelated elements can define a collective experience or philosophical inquiry.
- It was a model of successful co-habitation and co-existence even of the bitterest enemies of the most disparate backgrounds.
— from Terrorists and Freedom Fighters by Samuel Vaknin - How, indeed, could a lasting concord be maintained by two such disparate characters?
— from Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Complete by Frederick Niecks - But it would have no sense to set up such a law for absolutely disparate processes that do not stand in any relation in the single consciousness.
— from An Introduction to PsychologyTranslated from the Second German Edition by Wilhelm Max Wundt - Sully, The Human Mind, 2:369— “ Consciousness is a reality wholly disparate from material processes, and cannot therefore be resolved into these.
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong - Qué disparate, sino que anoche cabalmente ni siquiera hojeé un libro.
— from Contigo Pan y Cebolla by Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza - disparate m absurdity, unreasonable thing, (piece of) bosh.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós - It is the result of mental inertia, this coupling of such widely disparate temperaments.
— from Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker - It consisted of an amalgamation of disparate legends, of an aggregate of particular cults, as Egypt herself was an aggregate of a number of districts.
— from The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism by Franz Valery Marie Cumont
