Sentence examples for dissonance on from inspiring English sources

It's a film ruled by dissonance: On one hand, the accepting, otherworldly nature of a nearly wholly-gay gathering, and on the other, the kinds of internalized discrimination that gay culture brings.

Prosecutors and judges engage in cognitive dissonance — on the one hand understanding that police lie; on the other, failing to address the issue in any meaningful way.

The strepitus took the form of a crashing dissonance on the organ.

Mnuchin himself reinforced the dissonance on CNBC's "Squawk Box," just before the announcement became official.

"Hoping and hoping and hoping that the feeling goes away," is how Murphy handles the dissonance on "I Can Change".

Pairing pictures of adolescent girls with adult men, or of young women with middle-aged men, to suggest age parity produces cognitive dissonance on a mass scale.

An insistence on dissonance was one binding force among the musicians.

But some cognitive dissonance was on display on the Jan . 22episode of "WWE Raw" on the USA Network.

You are obviously free to come to your own views about Hunt's strange cognitive dissonance, where on the one hand there are the "strictest conditions" on the dredging, but on the other hand the "dredging area is not a notable... site" in the Reef.

Partway through, Mr. Callado kicked up a heavier beat, and Mr. Sá started plinking metallic dissonances on his guitar, as if a samba parade had turned into a brawl.

But the real joys were in the choral pieces, most notably in the cascading counterpoint of the "Dixit Dominus" and the exquisite, painterly setting of "Nisi Dominus," with its alternation of brisk, rhythmic writing on the word "surgite" ("rise") and slow, descending, dissonances on the phrase "Qui manducatis panem doloris" ("You who eat the bread of sorrow").