Not for the last time, Shakespeare became the means by which discordant elements in US society could find harmony.
This short scene of grim discovery contains all of the series' best, most discordant elements: madcap pop-culture references, whimsical surrealism, and surprisingly real emotional depth.
The record was a clattering melange of house, dancehall, deep bass, hip-hop and plenty of other discordant elements.
Jarry had an interest in the notion of "horrible beauty" in which an aesthetic appreciation of the monstrous was allowable and discordant elements could be counterbalanced by humour.
"I believe I have kept these discordant elements together as well as anyone could," Lincoln confided to a friend after the episode of the double resignations.
Discordant elements in the first two movements — the argumentative viola, the cello's dissonant underlay — are talked out and resolved, as in a perfect family.
These discordant elements draw attention to the fact that the absolute state which Versailles was intended to represent concealed tensions that would surface after the king's death.
Collage, which has the potential to join unlike and even discordant elements into a fractious harmony, was a preferred medium, enhanced over time by painting and drawing.
Bay has achieved here some filmic equivalent of extreme cubism, overlaying discordant elements one on top of the other and banging with a hammer and nails until they submit to him.
In his most elevated rhetorical passages, especially in "The Prelude," he often writes as though setting forth a metaphysical proposition that demands intellectual assent: "Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows / Like harmony in music; there is a dark / Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles / Discordant elements".
The sense of responsibility, drawn from long and painful experience, so marked in the venerable Emperor of Austria was absent in his heir, and it may well be that the new succession is more likely to hold together the composite and discordant elements of the Hapsburg realm.
