At odds
At odds adjective - In disagreement.
Normal
Normal adjective - Being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events.
Both terms in one sentence
- And yet... he will do anything to protect the people around him, often foregoing magic and just leaping irrationally to their defense, quite at odds with his normal Magnificent Bastard-in-training persona.
- Midway through the book his mother Arianna is revealed to be still alive, where she cites that due to her never wanting her son to join the military being at odds with the politically powerful UTSF she left him in order to give him a normal life.
- In The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey, Kate manages a spur-of-the-moment one by removing her hair from its ponytail, wearing Sticky's spectacles, not wearing her usual red bucket and moving in a shuffling gait that is completely at odds with her normal swiftness.
Source: Paper Thin Disguise / Literature
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