There is some serious cognitive dissonance going on here that is personally and professionally disturbing.
It's no wonder that new, lower valuations that VCs are beginning to suggest for their companies are resulting in some serious cognitive dissonance.
A quite different, more serious sort of publicity dissonance concerns The Birth of a Nation, the forthcoming true-life story of a US slave uprising in 1831, led by Nat Turner, played by the movie's young director Nate Parker — and of course satirically named after DW Griffith's notorious silent movie of 1915 praising the Ku Klux Klan.
There is a serious need to acknowledge the dissonance of this moment in history for LGBT people of color.
"It's a tone-deaf representation of dislocation of East Nashville, and [Thomas] exhibits strong cognitive dissonance on some very, very serious issues," he said.
If there's a tension within the book, it's in the dissonance between the whimsical entries and the serious ones: a passage on despair is followed by "desperately chasing after a woman even when she's a nun".
If there's a tension within the book, it's in the dissonance between the whimsical entries and the serious ones: a passage on despair is followed by "desperately chasing after a woman even when she's a nun".
The portal does collect some useful resources, but if anything it's yet another curious act of cognitive dissonance, this time from a DOJ intent on looking serious toward hate-motivated violence, even as it strips protections from vulnerable groups often targeted by violence — most notably transgender Americans, in recent days.
Although aware that smoking while pregnant presents serious risks to their unborn children, some women continue to smoke and rationalise their dissonance rather than quit.
Reexperience the mix of fun and serious, absurd and tragic that was the news in 2018 via The Times Style section's game, "2018: The Year in Dissonance". How long can you endure?
