dissonance

The dissonance is at its highest, yet the hour has struck for the lift of harmony.

There is dissonance from chaos; the song clears as the order begins.

The dissonance between her feelings and her actions troubled her no whit.

A "Meditation" is bleak, with a strong, free use of dissonance.

They concentrated, tuned, turned their thoughts against the dissonance.

And the dissonance of the complaint jarred her back to common-sense.

Terence Mann stopped playing, tense with a dissonance of perplexity.

Upon his ears a thousand sounds seemed to beat in tumult—and dissonance.

But Nature was just as fair that ambrosial September day as if there was not a dissonance.

There is among the four qualities within his life no dissonance.