dissonance
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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
“There’s a cognitive dissonance between the intricacies of these deals and the actual amount of water that is in storage,” said Sarah Porter, director of the Kyl Center for Water Policy at Arizona State University.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Dwayne Johnson’s performance in “The Smashing Machine,” for all the film’s flaws, cleverly reconciled the dissonance between the outward images of masculine power and internal feelings of self-loathing.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
There was a dissonance, faint, every two minutes across the water, and finally even that disappeared.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
The word-painting in these arresting madrigal-style pieces, heightened by Gesualdo’s characteristic dissonances, is starkly immediate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025
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
In “Der Doppelgänger” — one of Schubert’s most terrifying songs — she sustained dissonances, letting their uneasiness warp and linger under Padmore’s stark melody.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 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 ● Nov. 16, 2021
Or is there a kind of cosmic fugue, with themes and counterpoints, dissonances and harmonies, a billion different voices playing the life music of the Galaxy?
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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