dissonant

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

But it’s not the compounding of these tragedies that is most disturbing—it’s the comparatively dissonant responses to those two events many of us in the Jewish community have received from our allies, neighbors, co-workers, and friends.

Not striking a chord is perhaps a better-case scenario for an intellectual/experimental opera gone wrong — in 1964, an audience in Florence found the dissonant music of Alois Haba's "Matka" so painful, like someone "spitting out a mouthful of rusty nails," that they began walking out by the end of the first scene.

There’s a kind of internet shock humor to it all, an ugly meeting of Stephen Miller’s 19th-century-style racism with Elon Musk’s messageboard racism, plus some dissonant echoes of the heyday of the cat internet in the mid-2000s.

There’s a way to do it where it starts dissonant and then moves into harmony.