dissonance

But one doesn’t have to be near the desert to hear the dissonance.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026

The overall picture is one of serious cognitive dissonance.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

That dissonance is a big part of why “Ice Princess” holds up today.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026

And she goes further, delivering the word “sorry” with oddly pleasing dissonance at one point and, at another, extending the word “no” to suggest both desperation and humor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

But consonance and dissonance do also have a strong physical basis in nature.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

The man who created “The Rite of Spring”—a ballet whose pounding dissonances and unconventional rhythms caused pandemonium at its 1913 Paris premiere—now insisted that the bolder the creative ambition, the tighter the frame must be.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

It gives Beck room to peal some clarion melodies and then attack them with trills, bent notes, blues licks and dissonances.

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2023

To be an immigrant is to live in a fractured multiverse, one riven with geographic, temporal and psychical dissonances.

From Washington Post ● May 4, 2022

Everything about it, from the spare, enveloping details of Grant Major’s production design to the nerve-shredding dissonances of Jonny Greenwood’s score, directs our focus inward.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2022

The king had his court musicians, one of whom was Bach’s son Carl Philipp Emanuel, devise a tune specially, one they mischievously knew was practically impossible to turn into a fugue without creating horrible dissonances.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall