Fashion in any period manages to absorb disparate ideas and become invigorated by them.

- The best songs often take two disparate ideas and make them fit together.

Every record takes on new musical hues and offers disparate ideas and perspectives.

It links such seemingly disparate ideas as keeping a civil tongue and fighting for civil rights.

"It was such a hodgepodge - all these disparate ideas and songs that didn't make any sense together."

The springboard is the use of disparate ideas and materials, as is common in Beuys's installations.

TED is where these disparate ideas can come together, bump into others and perhaps spawn new ideas.

There, however, he succeeded in blending disparate ideas into something that could pass for a cohesive theme.

What other buildings have inspired such disparate ideas?

I take disparate ideas and connect them in (hopefully) useful ways.