And it's hard to think of a scandal that's more discordant with an image of focus and discipline than this one.
The van speeds on again, the jubilant music now sounding jarringly discordant.
The actors rehearsed their piece; a dance of dictatorship with no lines, only hums and sudden, discordant screams.
Tomorrow, if it passes without serious mishap, will represent the end of official mourning and the discordant hurdy-gurdy of the fairground can be turned up again to full volume and the old merry tunes on the cash register.
So why did it strike a slightly discordant note?
Unfortunately MoMA'S strangely discordant show never quite captures this depth of feeling, or even tries to understand how the singer transforms it into compelling work.
But in the case of twins, their diet can be assumed to be the same and therefore, in the case of the discordant twins, to be adequate.
No such reform, retorted the Elysée, was anything like ready.One explanation for these discordant voices could be that neither the prime minister nor the finance minister have as well-honed political instincts as Mr Sarkozy does for how to prepare public opinion for reform.
The real question is whether all the different songs can be blended into a single harmony; or whether discussions at Laeken and after will turn into a discordant cacophony of clashing voices.
In the field of AIDS research, a couple is deemed discordant when one partner is infected with HIV whereas the other is not.In this section Cosmic mood-swings Down the rabbit hole Ain't misbehaving The not-so-fair sex ReprintsThe orthodox view would have predicted that when a couple is discordant, it is more often the man than the woman who is infected.
Meanwhile, Myron Cohen, of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is beginning a clinical trial involving 1,750 "discordant" couples (those in which one partner is infected and the other not) to see if ARVs really do reduce transmission.
