Modern norms sound a dissonant note in the feasts of authenticity.

There's a dissonant note here, however: Throughout the spot, our smokers, the last one seen in satisfied profile, seem to be enjoying their smoke.

The only dissonant note was a Bush sign on a distant field.

- and then adds a dissonant note of reality.

Hard, dissonant notes sounded in my mother's voice.

Glass exploded and rained down on the parking lot in dissonant musical notes.

Detached strokes can sometimes be used on dissonant notes, however, without damage.

At last she hit a dissonant note and turned to them.

It falls like a faint, dissonant note at the end of this sometimes exquisite nocturne.

However, they added in dissonant notes to foreshadow the "grittiness to come".