How to Use dissonance in a Sentence

dissonance

noun

• That dissonance was a recurring theme in the days, weeks and months since Jan. 6.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Jan. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But there’s also, in the harmony and in the dissonance, something else going on.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2023
• Or is our aversion proof that dissonance is doing its job?
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
• Pinocchio is a kid-friendly movie, which may explain the dissonance.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 16 Dec. 2022
• For many Afghans the holiday this past week served as a reminder of the dissonance between the promise of peace many had imagined and the realities of the end of the war.
  — New York Times, 8 May 2022
• Cognitive dissonance is a big part of sports in this country.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
• That goes against the whole purpose of a festival, which is to provide a forum for debate and dissonance.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2024
• That dissonance helped break art into a million pieces.
  — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2022
• Rage has always called out hypocrisy and grappled with the dissonance of being a mainstream band that plays in arenas named after banks.
  — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2022
• The Supreme Court won’t decide what that dissonance says about Warhol’s legacy or artistic vision.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2022
• The song is, in many ways, emblematic of what the group does best: blending indie-pop charm with shots of dissonance and disorder.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2022
• If there is dissonance there, then the leaders and the leadership need to be elevated.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 13 May 2022
• The joke captures a feeling vital to the evolution of art: pride in dissonance, pride in difference.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 3 Dec. 2021
• It’s a dissonance echoed in another of my favorite turns this season.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2022
• Irish post-punk band Fontaines D.C. highlights the Velvets' penchant for noise and dissonance in their cover of this track with the very morbid-sounding title.
  — David Chiu, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• On her way — unofficially by herself — to a No. 3 pop hit, Gladys Knight sings out all that misty dissonance.
  — Danyel Smith, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2022
• Here is dissonance, all right, and distraction, too, albeit of a very different sort.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2022
• This produces a dissonance, and the viewer feels conflicted.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 10 Aug. 2022
• This dissonance is not helped by the fact that Gilmour dresses him a bit like Harry Potter, in an argyle sweater vest, high-top Converse sneakers and big glasses.
  — Trish Deitch, Variety, 10 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024