cacophony

For Elsbeth’s first time at the opera, a Carolina Herrera rose-print frock ticked the “cacophony of colors and patterns” box but was still appropriate for the culturally rich setting.

“Most people look at it like, ‘How can I manage this cacophony coming at me?’

Whereas I’m saying forget the cacophony,” he said.

The cacophony of an independence referendum campaign which had echoed through Scotland for three years had died away and Alex Salmond, so often the embodiment of pugnacious self-confidence, appeared pale and drained.

After the cacophony of the Trump years, the civility of the 2024 vice presidential debate evoked an earlier era of political discourse.