Sentence examples for potential dissonance from inspiring English sources

But apart from a glimpse of factory chimney, which could as well be a church steeple, Braque doesn't dwell on the specifics of the chemical industry or exploit the potential dissonance of the scene.

We examine this potential dissonance in PES program implementation, taking the case of PES in the forestry sector in Vietnam.

Despite the dazzling harmonic shifts in Gesualdo's fifth and sixth books of madrigals, his music was so extreme that some 20th-century critics and composers believed him to be a proto-serialist, going further than any composer before Schoenberg in mining the expressive potential of saturated dissonance.

"An increasing number of black people are questioning the cognitive dissonance between the vast potential of their lives... and the insistence of so many blacks around them that America remains a racist purgatory".

Accordingly, women who are educated but do not leave may be seen as failing to reach their potential, and these women may suffer dissonance between the model of life learned about through education and their current circumstances.

There are two possible explanations for this dissonance.

An interesting finding is the differential level of stress between public and private sector teachers, with teachers in the public sector having a lower level of stress despite the highly deplorable structural and functional factors that are potential sources of stress for these teachers, which may be suggestive of cognitive dissonance (Festinger 1957) among them.

If everything in games was just as it is in real life, I don't think they'd hold the same appeal we need a little dissonance, a little disconnection, to qualify these distractions as entertainment, experiences beyond our potential.

Rather than being strategies to actively reduce risk, they may be strategies to reduce their cognitive dissonance about engaging in behaviors that they know have immediate positive consequences while also having potential negative long-term consequences.

They demonstrated some of the great potential of inside-outside jazz — music that sometimes doesn't have a clearly stated pulse, that jumps between dissonance and holding firm to key centers, that can expand and contract as it needs.

The main way of reducing dissonance, if they cannot change their residence, is to change their beliefs and attitudes about living in a potential risky situation.