dissonance

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

The cognitive dissonance contributed to the thickness in the air that week.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

By contrast, the pain suggested by dissonance - the clashing of adjacent notes - is almost entirely absent from music written between 1750 and 1800.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

Pohlad treasures the harmonies and dissonances that wonderful actors create, even if his camera can excessively linger on Affleck’s brooding at the expense of an under-utilized Deschanel as the long-supportive wife.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 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

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

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