Sentence examples for dissonant with from inspiring English sources

A Greek-style temple would have been dwarfed by, or dissonant with, the surrounding structures.

And then I think, what about a language that's really dissonant with its subject?

The harmonies are sunlit, the voices are perky and harmonized not raw and dissonant with reckless emotion.

"This is so dissonant with what we think of as marriage that we shove it into the back of our minds," he said.

And when something is made, I compare it back to the reading experience and ask, Is this dissonant with the way I'm reading this, or consonant with it?

That facet of his persona doesn't get as much attention as others, largely because it's so dissonant with his determination to notch all seven deadly sins.

Frisell's occasional use of dissonant interplay with violinist Jenny Scheinman, spiced with bursts of feedback electronics and looped sound, added some much-needed coloration to the vamp patterns.

The brass section in particular was a marvel, infusing the opening theme with all the requisite stateliness and rendering the later dissonant passages with stentorian menace.

The sound world of the new work was attractive but less revolutionary: a noirish mix of sometimes Wagnerian sweep (with beef provided by Mr. McIntyre's trombone) and dissonant spikiness, with memorable moments of nearly silent murmurs in the strings.

In this episodic piece, Ms. Gubaidulina looks at Bach's theme through many filters, some dissonant, some with an almost medieval purity, and most of them with an intense emotional undercurrent that lingered into the intermission.

His language edged along the borders of French Impressionism, sometimes veering into a more dissonant style, with quirkily chromatic melodies and dense tone clusters (chords played with the fist or open palm) as distinguishing thumbprints.