How To Use Discordance In A Sentence
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The divergent scales of values scream in discordance, they dazzle and daze us, and in order that it might not be painful we steer clear of all other values, as though from insanity, as though from illusion, and we confidently judge the whole world according to our own home values.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - Nobel Lecture
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Since then there are some imaginations which may, and others which may not be rejected, it is lawful for us to retain our assent concerning them, though there were no other cause but this discordance, which is sufficient to work in us a suspicion of things, as having nothing certain and assured, but being altogether full of obscurity and perturbation.
Essays and Miscellanies
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From hence the PASSIONS have their birth: these are more or less violent; they are, however, nothing more than the motion of the will, determined by the objects which give it activity; consequently composed of the analogy or of the discordance which is found between these objects, man's peculiar mode of existence, and the force of his temperament.
The System of Nature, Volume 1
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Western science has no place for religion and it sets the scene therefore for disharmony and discordance with it.
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I rigged up a sort of jurymast of a bootlace with a bit of old string, and wandered off to look up the girls, conscious of a jar and a discordance in the scheme of things.
Dream Days
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Dressing up "discordance" with the term "diversity" no more makes off-key music sound better than it makes gutteral sewer commentary tolerable.
About my proposed Titus recording.
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Although opener ‘Pressure Drop’ begins with a hint of sparky, Sea and Cake-style discordance, it blooms into a gloriously euphonic chorus of ringing guitars and viola swoops spread lavishly with Archer's bedhead vocals.
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We experience an additional discordance when the people around us are telling us that they love us, but we just don't feel it somehow.
Sara Elizabeth Ivanhoe: Bhakti - The Yoga of Valentine's Day
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And there's been such discordance since -- in my own life, I mean.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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But he couldn't discount that inaccuracy of testing -- largely due to interobserver discordance in reading the percentage of cells that stain positive for the receptors -- could be playing a role as well.
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Looking out of my bedroom window last night, making out the dusted redbrick chimneys of the parallel terraces, it was as if the discordance had shifted.
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However, stratocladistics does ask hypotheses to be held accountable for the number of separately enumerable and logically independent discordances that they urge on their defenders.
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In fact, the discordance between federal and state laws makes it especially important to protect the privacy of patients.
Steph Sherer: Patient Privacy Should Be at the Heart of Medical Marijuana Regulations
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And there's been such discordance since -- in my own life, I mean.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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Above all, it faced the progressive movement of the civilisation of the book, enveloping discordance like the resolving refrain of a Beethoven sonata.
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This might be responsible for the discordance observed between the cytological and histological grading systems.
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In most of Ms. Freda's 29 pictures all from 2010 there is discordance among the severe geometries, layered wax grounds and expressionistic strokes.
Playing With Sand, Wind and Fire
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The lopolith lies with complete discordance upon plutonic and metamorphic rocks of complicated structural and metamorphic history, and is overlain concordantly by rhyodacite tuffs which are intruded by the granophyre and are in turn overlain concordantly by sedimentary rocks.
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The term "discordance" is the opposite -- a condition in one twin but not in the other twin.
Dan Agin: More Than Genes IV: Epigenetics, the Womb, and Mental Illness
