Sentence examples for dissonance against from inspiring English sources

"In vain" is a narrative of oppositions, setting light against darkness, dissonance against pure intervals, modern tuning against natural resonances.

Ms. Berkson sings at an eccentric, stop-and-start, hide-and-seek rubato crawl, sometimes pushing her mezzo soprano into microtone dissonance against the warm, slow sounds she makes on the piano and Wurlitzer organ.

Frank Kimbrough, the pianist, started playing an improvised fantasia that worked in complete dissonance against the slow, repeating, rubato brass chords; it almost split your concentration in half, before a kind of slow Neil Young beat took over and the guitarist John Hart dived in, playing blues language with a little distortion.

But rather than resulting in a distracting dissonance against the use of very real events of World War I as narrative markers – the struggle for survival during chlorine attacks at Ypres, the terrific losses of the Somme Offensive – the art style focuses the player on game objectives through crisp environmental design, and on something rather deeper.

Mr. Palmieri took piano solos that sowed anarchy: dissonances hurled against the beat, montuno patterns disrupted by sudden crashes, breaks while he cued the crowd to clap along.

Contemporary art curators do it all the time, courting this kind of dissonance, reading things against the grain.

Mravinsky is especially intense here, screwing up the tension and keeping it steady, in the dissonance that glares against the bombast.

Colossal bellows, needling synthetic bleats, and grating textures unfold in explosive, angular blocks; harsh noise sits next to shimmering, pristine sounds, dissonance directly up against eerie silences.

Part of the shock of those revelations came from the dissonance between the allegations against Besh, which include engaging in a "long-term unwelcome sexual relationship" with a female employee (Besh has called the relationship "consensual"), and the story he had sold of himself.

"Caitlyn Jenner is a text book case on cognitive dissonance and her vote against her own supposed interests made that evident," Preston said.

It's not the product or engineering ability that slows them down, but the dissonance within an organization acting against its own interests.