"I guess they consider people like us inharmonious," Ms. Woeser said, speaking by phone from Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, where she grew up.
White noise is generally defined by hazy and inharmonious hissing — it's noise-eating noise, anti-noise, a way of drowning out other sounds.
All bells contain an array of partials, or sound-wave frequencies of various pitches, but the tone of a musical bell consists of both harmonious partials and higher inharmonious partials.
In the spring of 1972 a European expedition led by the German Karl Herrligkoffer was equally inharmonious.
"Would a gulf of inharmonious beliefs have separated us?" she asks.
Less than 24 hours earlier, Alex Rodriguez's mere presence turned the Yankee Stadium crowd into a buzzing, inharmonious chorus.
And once more, the inharmonious and unseemly nature can only tend to disproportion?
Something inharmonious, like a small rattling in an otherwise luxurious car, had taken hold of my Vineyard days.
By the 1820s, the taste for rich colours had come to seem, to a younger generation, "heavy & inharmonious, tinselly, tawdry".
When you're bombarded by concrete and you don't have space around you, you act in inharmonious ways.
The paradoxically beautiful, seamless 30-year survey of his work at the Guggenheim Museum catches many of our inharmonious country's discontents and refracts them back to us.
