dissonant

The striking “Porcelana,” about enduring pain for fleeting pleasure, has a woozy, dissonant arrangement that mixes woodwinds, shrieking strings, and skittering percussion.

But the truth is dissonant, as Stokes pointed out.

No matter which side of the increasingly dissonant political divide we sit on, rage emanates from either end.

Experts say that the merger strikes a dissonant chord from a branding perspective too.

We sent a dissonant chorus of our own to the Whitney Museum of American Art: three critics, each writing separately, on the highs and lows of the exhibition everyone will have an opinion about.