Lack of harmony

Usage examples of dissonance.

Slowly, letting Bruja make her own way against the dissonance around, Silence eased the ship onto a safe course.

The older the businessperson, by and large, the more frequent and severe the cognitive dissonance is.

Even now they hover over our good city of Exeter, frighting the honest burghers with their dissonance.

True, they had been trying to kill herall the ones she had killedbut they were still people, and Sapphic Cyclans considered killing people as primal dissonance.

Fascism-a strong triple coalition of Brazil, which had taken over three quarters of the South American continent, marching and singing under the silver banners of Garva, and North China, singing the same songs, though with oriental dissonance, under a man called Stephen Chu, and Irania, which included Arabia, Egypt, most of North Africa marching with bur-noose and iron heels under the guidance of that renegade Anglo-Egyptian, George Fahdi.

Immensely proud of their student, they explained that his compositions were a logical extension of the dissonances of modern masters such as Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Hoist, Poulenc, Milhaud, Cage, Hindemith, Copeland, Webern, and Glass.

The spirochetes of syphilis, brought back from the New World by the intrepid explorers on the ships of Columbus, are of no more concern to the blood-drinker than the molecules of alcohol or the harsh dissonance of cocaine.

What stars are these that sing so beautifully when all the world is languishing in dissonance?

There were nauseous musical instruments, stringed, brass, and wood-wind, on which St John and I sometimes produced dissonances of exquisite morbidity and cacodaemoniacal ghastliness.

But if any ghost presence from that past remained to haunt Corith's ruin, the land retained no thread of dissonance.

Up to an augmented seventh as the chorus chimed in on a dissonance, calculated to raise inner hackles and pierce the gut with longing.

It was more subtle than that, just a quick moment of total and complete cognitive dissonance.

Well I am ostensibly because I'm marketed as a science fiction writer, but what I really do is look at what passes for contemporary reality and select the bits that are most useful to me in terms of inducing cognitive dissonance.

He appeared, saying, 'The case of Peters, with his mild punishment, gratifies our liberal instincts but represents a case of cognitive dissonance, the disjunction between reality and one's ideas.

Provoke the kind of cognitive dissonance that will cause them to crumble from within.