How to Use dissonance in a Sentence

dissonance

noun

• Kancheli plays with dissonance in the music, yet a melancholy sweetness prevails throughout.
  — Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 11 Oct. 2024
• These politicians instead will continue in dissonance, encouraging their supporters to hum louder than the other choir.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Duterte is a source of deep dissonance among Filipinos today.
  — Jessica Mendoza, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Apr. 2018
• But there’s also, in the harmony and in the dissonance, something else going on.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2023
• 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
• That leads us to the basic dissonance at the heart of this new space race, the vast gap between the lives of its leaders and the rest of us, condemned to be earthly spectators.
  — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 9 July 2021

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024