discordance

Example Sentences

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As a professional editor, Susan is alert to discordance and senses something is not quite right.

From Los Angeles Times

Ms. Garrels’s editors in Washington were watching television and asked her if she wanted to revise her story, given the discordance between her words and the televised images.

From New York Times

There is also a weird thematic discordance when you consider that “Thrones” spent eight seasons showing us the destructive folly of cyclical power struggles, ultimately building to a resolution designed to leave all that behind.

From New York Times

Yehoshua captured the discordance of living in a land fraught with moral and political conundrums.

From New York Times

The discordance of the secretary of state selling the bombing of Iraq in front of the shrouded image of shrieking and mutilated women, men, children, bulls and horses spoke volumes.

From New York Times