Sentence examples for dissonance of a from inspiring English sources

The dissonance of a Russian-sponsored media outlet espousing free speech principles is overwhelming.

Ravel's swirl has the dissonance of a modern work of art.

Another new song, "T'wouldnt've," supplemented the fine-etched dissonance of a serialist composition with a chordal turn that evoked Thelonious Monk.

He worked over the dissonance of a whole tone scale, and flatted the fifth degree of a chord, ending a phrase on its bitterness.

Influential broadcasters – whether from cynicism, credulousness, or a blend of the two – now readily spread outlandish theories in order to quiet the clanging cognitive dissonance of a particularly gullible, or committed mass of rightwing Americans.

But there's always a temple festival a short drive away to draw you out, and at night traditional dances beckon, with lithe performers flashing agate eyes to the hypnotic dissonance of a gamelan orchestra.

It created for the audience, watching shivering characters coming in to drink mulled wine, the seasonal cognitive dissonance of an antipodean Christmas.

Illicitly taking mine off, I could hear the way Abrahams's music sliced through the space and towards our bodies: the crisp dissonance of an electric guitar; the clear ringing of the keys of an organ.

Schoenberg himself may have considered his most fundamental contribution to musical history to be "the emancipation of dissonance"—a relativistic conception of intervals and chords that disregarded the careful regulation of dissonance characteristic of functional harmony.

Trust me when I say a certain functional schizophrenia has to exist in order to cope with the dissonance of having a Black man in the White House while a Black body lies for 4 hours in the streets of Ferguson.

"In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some menace behind it," Mr. Van Allsburg said, explaining the "cognitive dissonance" of using a house's daily certitudes as backdrops for marvelous incident.