dissonance
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The overall picture is one of serious cognitive dissonance.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Dr. Fauci’s private notes reveal a stark epistemic dissonance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
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
The cognitive dissonance contributed to the thickness in the air that week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Or they may simply feel "unstable"; if you hear a chord with a dissonance in it, you may feel that the music is pulling you towards the chord that resolves the dissonance.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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
George Lewis’s recent chamber and orchestral scores have been action-packed thrill rides, full of lovingly crafted dissonances and exciting collisions of rhythmic contour.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
The duel with the guitarist was remarkable, with the two of them first trading, then meshing into some dissonances that were downright avant-garde.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 11, 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 ● Feb. 8, 2022
In some modern music, many of these dissonances are heard as pleasant or interesting or jazzy and don't need to be resolved.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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