dissonance
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The overall picture is one of serious cognitive dissonance.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Well, that is a conundrum that Mrs. Waters, in the interest of avoiding confrontation with her life’s cognitive dissonance, should probably learn to live with.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
Anchored on a near-orchestral soundstage, its 20 tracks ricochet from in-your-face punk dissonance to majestic broken-heart dirges, a lovely duet with St. Vincent, rootsy folk interludes and farfisa-rich lounge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 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
Shostakovich edged back from his previous gloom and dissonance, composing a more 'traditional’-style symphony of four contrasting movements, progressing in them from grim, layered anxiety in the first to a triumphant conclusion in the fourth.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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
The group’s albums were much admired for their mixture of classical and blues elements, along with screaming dissonances from Robin Trower’s guitar, a searing backdrop from Matthew Fisher’s organ and the terse precision of B.J.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2023
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
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 pattern of tension and release created by resolved dissonances is part of what makes a piece of music exciting and interesting.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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