dissonance
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Well, that is a conundrum that Mrs. Waters, in the interest of avoiding confrontation with her life’s cognitive dissonance, should probably learn to live with.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
For Iran’s fans in America, the whole adventure has been one long exercise in historical dissonance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
In a moment when AI and digital technology allows for on-demand perfection, there’s a creeping thrill to the possibility of flaws and dissonance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2026
As if this wasn’t ominous enough, the latest BofA Securities fund-manager’s survey shows that Wall Street is, once again, experiencing severe cognitive dissonance: It is simultaneously worried about the market, but afraid to sell.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 14, 2026
It’s a weird kind of dissonance, seeing him stand here in front of my door.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
The man who created “The Rite of Spring”—a ballet whose pounding dissonances and unconventional rhythms caused pandemonium at its 1913 Paris premiere—now insisted that the bolder the creative ambition, the tighter the frame must be.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
Although León’s language is different from decade to decade, her ear for slightly bent phrases in the early works can help prepare a listener for the way she later learned to make starker dissonances dance.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2022
To be an immigrant is to live in a fractured multiverse, one riven with geographic, temporal and psychical dissonances.
From Washington Post ● May 4, 2022
Everything about it, from the spare, enveloping details of Grant Major’s production design to the nerve-shredding dissonances of Jonny Greenwood’s score, directs our focus inward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2021
The king had his court musicians, one of whom was Bach’s son Carl Philipp Emanuel, devise a tune specially, one they mischievously knew was practically impossible to turn into a fugue without creating horrible dissonances.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Vocabulary lists containing dissonance
Common Senses: Son ("Sound")
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