How to Use dissonance in a Sentence

dissonance

noun

• Duterte is a source of deep dissonance among Filipinos today.
  — Jessica Mendoza, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Apr. 2018
• The night ended with a touch of eighties style and contemporary dissonance.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2018
• Musically, the two scores couldn’t be more different, yet the dissonance that jars most is visual.
  — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 4 May 2018
• As is often the case, a tweet captured the dissonance at the heart of Trump's message on immigration.
  — David Lauter, latimes.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• What Notopoulos might be feeling is the dissonance of feed-life giving way to story-life online.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 3 May 2018
• Kanye West became smitten with her off-kilter stacks of vocal harmonies, flirtations with dissonance and wild swings in tone.
  — August Brown, latimes.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• For starters, there’s less episodic dissonance this season, which gives the series more of a backbone and traditional arc for its 11 episodes.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2018
• The chord seethes with unsettled dissonance, packed with half- and whole-step clashes and anxious tritones, yet its triadic backbone lends stability.
  — Matthew Guerrieri, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• There was also a dissonance to these speeches, however, now that Trump had settled into his presidency.
  — Charles Homans, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
• Which somehow makes the jokes more scabrously intense, the dissonance between the politicians’ petty power plays and the suffering of their subjects grounding the farce in fury.
  — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• And while musically there’s still plenty of dissonance lurking just beneath the surface, Poem is reliably catchy.
  — Nathaniel Friedman, GQ, 26 Apr. 2018
• The dissonance between the soap-bubble gleam of the ideal and the jagged loneliness that lies within is the animating force at the heart of this touchingly multivalent work.
  — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2018
• Dumakude and Okpokwasili, the two vocalists in the cast, sing a mournful, somber tune — one of a few moments in this 90-minute work which abandon dissonance in sound, if not in words.
  — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• Cantú suffers constant nightmares as the dissonance between his intentions and his actions, his impulses and his experiences, becomes hard to bear.
  — Carlos Lozada, miamiherald, 5 Apr. 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
• Capsule: Julie Albers soars in this concert full of dissonance, meditation and feeling.
  — Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 11 Oct. 2024
• Still, Echoes of Wisdom stands as a quietly revisionist work despite this dissonance.
  — James Perkins Mastromarino, NPR, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Nov 2024