discordant

Sell strikes a discordant frame against the middle America bedlam of Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas.

It’s a viewpoint that’s admittedly discordant with what’s happening in the world, but the British director embraces a flame of optimism.

The discordant note is subtle, but at the same time hard to entirely miss.

A man walked by and heard the announcement, a slightly discordant chorus of sorts from the different phones all tuned into the same thing being “sung” by different voices.

Then again, that casual approach to "true" storytelling relaxes the tension and makes the spots where Jarecki teases out the saga's perverse humor a bit discordant.