How to Use dissonance in a Sentence

dissonance

noun
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  • This is one nagging dissonance at the heart of Maroney’s book.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
  • The structure had caused dissonance between the price of bitcoin and the fund’s share price.
    — Rob Curran, WSJ, 10 Apr. 2017
  • 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
  • That, to me, is the problem: the dissonance between the rhetoric and the reality, not using the tools.
    — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 12 July 2017
  • 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
  • Covid dissonance In 2017, Mr. Carson was in the early stages of a divorce and newly sober.
    — Rebecca Davis O’Brien, New York Times, 10 June 2024
  • Except, her early years of faith were marred by a strong dissonance.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 9 June 2022
  • The dissonance between their present and these memories drives them to death.
    — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 20 Mar. 2022
  • But the dissonance among the Russian leader’s base must unnerve the Kremlin.
    — Timothy Frye, Foreign Affairs, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Acasa, My Home opens with a lovely image of telling dissonance.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2021
  • Savages’ music draws on the propulsion and dissonance of post-punk.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2016
  • There’s a sense of unease coursing through the record, with flashes of dissonance that ratchet up the tension.
    — Mark Richardson, WSJ, 13 May 2022
  • Douthat often sounds like a symptom of the dissonances that Francis seeks to resolve.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2015
  • And yet, here, when Hoffman draws very close to the strings of Hawthorne’s novel, we’re made aware of the grating dissonance between them as writers.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
  • But the dissonance between the current and future U.S. administrations is confusing major players in the Middle East.
    — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2024
  • That ironic dissonance between words and music allows the Wolves of Glendale to operate on separate frequencies.
    — Josh Weiss, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024

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