dissonance

But the very dissonance of the thing is probably its point.

Other dissonances in his life have been sexual and social.

We have tried to explain this dissonance in our own way.

Dissonance is in the air, or at least the music, and the two meet literally head on.

Your mind interpreted the call in a way that brought order to the dissonance.

Yet for believers, maybe that dissonance is a good thing.

How does one deal successfully with the dissonance between the word of God and the evidence in the physical world?

So there's no dissonance for me going from one language to another."

If sexual dissonance exists it may sometimes be beyond help.

Every piece on the program was full of what Western music has historically called dissonance.

Furthermore, once an individual makes a decision dissonance has begun.

Dissonance is used for dramatic effect rather than as a new form of grammar.

He wanted the audience to stop whining and take its dissonance like a man.

Popular culture has instead found dissonance and violence as its main tools.

Dissonance crashed into his ears again, and still a third time.

But there are times when quiet dissonance has its own appeal, and this is one of them.

As old walls fall, ethnic dissonance can no longer be hidden.

"But no society can tolerate that kind of dissonance forever."

And yes, the Bush administration clearly has a collective cognitive dissonance problem.

In the name of all dissonance, what can it be?"

On no other issue before the country is there such dissonance between scholars and politicians.

The first is the enduring dissonance between evidence of a strong economy and a weak job market.

It is a cognitive dissonance at the heart of our genre.

A character's Passion is often used to create dissonance and conflict.

She is already calling on dissonance to support her attack."