How to Use dissonance in a Sentence

dissonance

noun
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  • Getting comfortable with the dissonance, that’s the thing.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 25 June 2018
  • What should be harsh dissonance is interwoven into an audio treat that is surprisingly smooth.
    — Charlie Theel, Ars Technica, 26 May 2018
  • The gentrification also plays up the dissonance the characters feel throughout the movie.
    — refinery29.com, 6 July 2018
  • Environmental dissonance seems to fix books in my consciousness.
    — Nicole Lamy, New York Times, 22 May 2018
  • In another era of upheaval and dissonance, Lafayette and the Poor People's Campaign are back.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 May 2018
  • But sorting through such dissonance, trying to reconcile the first and second Lukes, seems a task beyond the powers of your average major league team.
    — SI.com, 16 May 2018
  • Still, Echoes of Wisdom stands as a quietly revisionist work despite this dissonance.
    — James Perkins Mastromarino, NPR, 25 Sep. 2024
  • But when the pair got engaged in 2015, a dissonance stormed their otherwise peaceable relationship.
    — New York Times, 8 June 2018
  • The data shows that the dissonance exists in virtually every prominent story.
    — Alvin Chang, Vox, 30 May 2018
  • Power is transmitted to all wheels via a continuously variable transmission that has paddle shifters, which was another source of dissonance for my shrink.
    — Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2018
  • That dissonance is at the heart of a debate in Germany about the country’s treatment of arrivals who have come seeking refugee protection, but who are unlikely to be allowed to stay.
    — Griff Witte, Washington Post, 18 May 2018
  • And now one of the many sad things about his murder is that the jarring cultural dissonance between his immense popularity and the gut-wrenching nature of his alleged abuse will now never be resolved.
    — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 20 June 2018
  • This is one nagging dissonance at the heart of Maroney’s book.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
  • There is some dissonance of that message with one to wear your mask.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2021
  • That dissonance was a recurring theme in the days, weeks and months since Jan. 6.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Jan. 2022
  • The movie deftly accounts for the dissonance between the two events.
    — New York Times, 24 June 2021
  • Welser-Most and the strings basked in what is truly a work for them and of its time, a brilliant study in angst and dissonance straight from the eve of war in 1939.
    — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 13 Nov. 2020
  • The rule has helped fuel a sort of cruel dissonance at the border.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2021
  • The essay is about the dissonance between good art and bad men in the wake of the #MeToo revelations.
    — Peter Biskind, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The dissonance has grown even more apparent as protests have sprung up in all 50 states.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 3 June 2020
  • The project is not far enough in the past to be historical, yet not close enough to the present to feel salient, and this creates a kind of dissonance.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • The Skalkottas was the earliest of the pieces, but also the prickliest in rhythms and tartest in dissonance.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 24 Apr. 2023
  • What kind of dissonance did that create between your mind and your body?
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2023
  • But that dissonance is just the thing that skyrocketed Tanya Tucker to fame in the 1970s.
    — Natalia Winkelman, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2022
  • This dissonance may push the person to leave the company.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The Academy is more than aware of the public dissonance.
    — Samantha Hissong, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2021
  • What were those notes that seemed to escape from the orchestra and jab me with touches of dissonance?
    — New York Times, 28 Nov. 2021
  • Cognitive dissonance is a hard thing to portray, but the movie’s shadowy vibe does a good job of it.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2022
  • In addition to its tonal dissonance with the Oscar show itself, the number was rocky from the start.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2020
  • For an actor who exuded playful, sophisticated, even dangerous charm, the retiring English rose of a character was pure dissonance.
    — Lily Ruth Hardman, IndieWire, 16 Sep. 2024

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