dissonance
Example Sentences
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If there’s a complaint to be had with “Boo-Yah” it is the dissonance between Scott’s dignified approach to a terminal disease and the documentary’s close-to-maudlin treatment of its subject’s passing.
The strange dissonance became even more jarring when the administration finally released its long-awaited “National Security Strategy.”
From Salon
There is a cognitive dissonance in their argument, however, given that many of those same forecasters assume that strong corporate profit growth will continue unabated.
From Barron's
At its most insightful, his book reveals a colossal dissonance between a person and a persona.
It landed just as shoppers were loading up on boxed meals and non-perishable eats, a dissonance that feels almost poetic: a culture clinging to glamour even as the cupboards start to echo.
From Salon
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