dissonant

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

The music is not simply about the assertion of dissonant force.

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

But even at the hospital something was dissonant, out of sync.

When a director and actors attempt to tell a story in another language, it can create a dissonant sound.

There was a sound from the next room, a hesitation in the music, then the dissonant fall of a hammer.

But somehow their dissonant convergence feels just right for the moment.

The acquisition sparks dissonant responses from his two best friends.

But sometimes on the show floor that conversation seemed dissonant and strident.

The very idea is dissonant, a kind of betrayal.

The results sometimes seem like a cognitively dissonant test of dietary will.

Yet I will never agree with those who prefer silence instead of dissonant voices.

"Dissonant time when wine's best used to kill a cough."

Yet there are times when those relationships strike a particularly dissonant chord.

Dissonant music drifted out of the open third door.

In most Western music, tone clusters tend to be heard as dissonant.

In other cases, complicated and dissonant cultural leaps are spelled out.

They have achieved the same thing as the movie: a state of dissonant divergence.

The alert tones sound different: longer, less sharp, more dissonant.

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

His music sounded very modern with lots of dissonant chords.

Now the relationship between the camps has turned dissonant if not, at times, downright hostile.

There was just a terrible pressure in his head and a painful dissonant ringing.

Songs in the same key do not generate a dissonant tone when mixed.

He is known, among other reasons, for his formulation of dissonant counterpoint.