You hang around Republicans, and you begin to hear all sorts of discordant things.
Karzai, who can say discordant things, seemed politely happy with this, perhaps assuming that the easiest way to fulfill our self-imposed obligation was with money.
The skittering, discordant We Run Things gave him an excuse to play congas, and a pretty duet with his brother, Ben, swirled around for ages.
And, rounding out the appetizer courses (pace yourself!), a deconstructed goat-cheese salad is reconstructed as soup: the cheese sitting on top of a round of brioche in a bowl filled with frisée and batons of bacon and surrounded by cubes of green apple and marvelously discordant tofu, the whole thing draped in lardo.
I have been taking inventory of things that seem discordant although they might have been passable before Sept. 11.
And with sonically complex contemporary music such as Ligeti or Penderecki, mics and speakers make things sound harsh and discordant.
It was loud, discordant, and maybe transformative, because important things were said – not necessarily new, but said more emphatically, by more of us, and heard as never before.
Yet somehow, Prince keeps things from getting too cluttered or discordant.
A discordant crescendo rose, and Mr. Burickson eventually ended things with a heartfelt send-off.
The oddest thing about this onslaught, strife, contention, assault, incursion, discordant havoc is discovering the biggest problem with having allies is having to work with the allies.
