dissonance

He understands how to use his innate magnetism to charm his way through even the silliest scripts, occasionally creating a dissonance between the film and his performances that makes even the duds memorable.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

And let’s not forget how, in this particular song, what’s happening is that Mills is singing the same lines as Stipe, just a beat or two slower; it’s not an echo, it’s dissonance.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

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

By contrast, the pain suggested by dissonance - the clashing of adjacent notes - is almost entirely absent from music written between 1750 and 1800.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

The group’s albums were much admired for their mixture of classical and blues elements, along with screaming dissonances from Robin Trower’s guitar, a searing backdrop from Matthew Fisher’s organ and the terse precision of B.J.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2023

He came closest to surprising in the cadenza he created for the first movement, which had ruminative dissonances and lively string crossings.

From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2021

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

As the music, enlivened by unscored dissonances, swelled to a raucous climax, she gripped the wooden sides of her chair, closed her eyes.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan