How To Use Discordant In A Sentence

The functional modernity of the computer struck a discordant note amid the elegant eighteenth-century furniture.
There have been some recent studies using twins which show that there's a higher rate in the concordant, identical twins than in the discordant twins.
The discordant sounds of violinos, woodwinds, and the falk-horn rose around Anna, but she continued to watch the camp below. Darksong Rising
But everything of that kind was brought abruptly to an end by a loud discordant blowing of horns and the hollow _tub, tub, tub_ of a number of rude drums; at which sounds the crowd around us broke up at once and retired, our little Hebe casting back at us more than one glance strongly indicative, as it seemed to me, of compassion. The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron
Dropping the rag over the side of the bedpost, she turned and let the scabrous shard fall into a small bowl on the dresser; it greeted a similarly discordant family with a slight tink of angular metallic collision.

These techniques allow governments and corporations the freedom to promote ideas that would appear repulsive, discordant or even downright stupid if spoken in plain English.
Amid all this sylvan glory the notice giving the dentist's working hours struck a discordant note.
Meanwhile, Peach's poo-colored top is "discordant" with her polka dot skirt Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 2 Recap: Size Matters
As a consequence, the complex shows discordant evolutionary patterns at different levels of organization.
The "Southern Republic," from her immense size and unusually handsome equipment, was a novelty even to the river people; and each afternoon of her starting, crowds came aboard to bid farewell to friends and roam over the vessel, or collected on the bluffs above to see her swing out to the shrill notes of her "calliope," the best and least discordant on the river. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
The monozygotic twin material consisted of both concordant and discordant twin pairs, and some unpaired healthy twins.
Close by the inn stood the ancient church, and the shrill, discordant clack of the cracked bell could be distinctly heard in the ballroom.
There was screeching, discordant, monstrous music. Times, Sunday Times
As a guitarist he was just so original and so discordant ... Times, Sunday Times
But this study has, for the first time, clearly demonstrated a genetic difference between concordant and discordant identical twins.
Blue and green have been termed discordant, and in painting they may undoubtedly be made so. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
For when we are deeply mournful discordant above all others is the voice of mirth.
The contemporary dialogue for me struck a slightly discordant note.
On the other hand, if the cues from different senses are discordant, perception can be distorted.
They come as a collection of discordant but not unpleasing tastes. Times, Sunday Times
His agenda is discordant with ours.
For music to be beautiful, the voices must not only be true, clear, and distinct from one another, but also united together in such a way that there may arise a just consonance and harmony which is not unfitly termed a discordant harmony or rather harmonious discord. Treatise on the Love of God
Lincoln, of course, made a similar move for 2000 with its LS, which introduced the idea of sporty driving to a brand that, at that time, seemed just as discordant with the idea as Buick does now. 2009 LA Auto Show: Odds, ends, and final thoughts
Calliope music played: a Strauss waltz, stirring and occasionally discordant. AMERICAN GODS
The functional modernity of the computer struck a discordant note amid the elegant eighteenth-century furniture.
While the Kinshaya envoy, Patriarch Radrigi, remained conspicuously mute, the Gorn, Tholian, and Breen diplomats filled the room with a discordant olio of hisses, chirps and clicks, and electronic warbles. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
For the audience, the music is a blend of nontraditional, at times discordant, sound.
Analysis shows that the main reasons behind divorce are discordant personalities, extra-marital affairs, a weak marriage base, or physiological problems with one or other of the couple.
‘After the war,’ Brandark murmured, and the balalaika's soft notes were suddenly dark and discordant.
However, for all dominant themes of harmony, within the noisy ambiguity there might also be quieter, discordant notes.
There were none of the discordant notes of Wednesday, when he did not want to see or speak to anyone. Times, Sunday Times
The results are centered, economic, and if occasionally obvious, prove an effective offset to vocals that run from austere to jarringly dense and discordant.
That he did most truly and sincerely believe the existence of “debils-debils” we had proof every evening, for he would sit at the door of his grass hut, maintain a big, dancing fire, and sing lustily under the supposition that a good discordant corroboree was the most effective scare. My Tropic Isle
I found a disturbing number of very different crème brûlée recipes out there, calling for widely discordant oven temp, cooking time and quantities of eggs/cream/sugar.
It's worse," he repeated, his voice loud and harsh, like a discordant bell clashing in the sostenuto passage of a symphony; "but it's all one to me -- there's nothing else they can take; I'm free, free to sleep or wake, to be drunk when I like with no responsibility to Simmons or any one else -- Mountain Blood A Novel
They are winds that put the mind in tumult, sweeping us along like ships in a gale, and as storms disturb the harmony of nature, passions are discordant and jangling.
These poor wretches were stunted in their growth, their hideous faces bedaubed with white paint, their skins filthy and greasy, their hair entangled, their voices discordant, and their gestures violent.
You might guess that a show selected by six different people would appear discordant, reflecting a clash of outlook and taste.
Small businesses are becoming more discordant, with disciplinary procedures becoming formalised at an earlier stage and internal disagreements more likely to lead to legal action.
He added: ‘The sign looks a discordant and random afterthought which is entirely unsympathetic to the architectural integrity of this attractive building.’
The musical voice was now a harsh discordant tone that echoed around him.
They sing a discordant series of sounds that can be alternately tuneful and rasping.
Now, however, the vast lobby is eerily silent save a single discordant chord struck repeatedly by a piano tuner.
Diconsolate, annoyed, subdued, Florian and I wait; as we wait the taxi driver turns on the radio and it blares some discordant, ululating, quarter-toned Arab music.
Can our hero foil the discordant plans before they crescendo into an unharmonious climax of untold evil? Comic Review: Donald Duck and Friends #354 | Fandomania
views discordant with present-day ideas
The phenomena of medical cupping-glasses and of the swallowing of drink and of the projection of bodies, whether discharged in the air or bowled along the ground, are to be investigated on a similar principle; and swift and slow sounds, which appear to be high and low, and are sometimes discordant on account of their inequality, and then again harmonical on account of the equality of the motion which they excite in us. Timaeus
Unsurprisingly, different scales can lead to discordant results.
the piece ended discordantly
The forced synalepha of = yo haga = is discordant and incorrect. Modern Spanish Lyrics
Take phenomenological psychologists focusing on the subject and behaviourists focusing on objects: They typically do not just write in different journals, they also disagree with each other in discordant ways.
From Helmholtz's analysis of sounds one would get the idea that the so-called tempered scale of our pianos caused thirds and sixths to sound discordantly. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University
When it was over, and Mugridge was back in the galley, he became greasily radiant, and went about his work, humming coster songs in a nerve-racking and discordant falsetto. Chapter 6
If the pair were discordant, that is one had schizophrenia and the other did not then the non - schizophrenic was followed for at least 13 years to see if it developed later. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
A few months passed in sweet harmony, but then discordant notes began to be heard from the music ministry. Christianity Today
The only discordant note in the amicable hubbub was the sound of customers fighting over the right to settle their minuscule checks.
Indeed, throughout the occupation, the stream of images continues to feel disturbingly discordant with our national identity.
Discordant findings were resolved by consensus review by a third gastrointestinal radiologist.
Iran and its cynical game with the West confuses the discordant Europeans more than ever and thus the cunning re-armer in Tehran gains time for rearmament. The Intuition of the Lebanese
And he frequently lets loose long, discordant howls. Times, Sunday Times
And he frequently lets loose long, discordant howls. Times, Sunday Times
It's a discordant note that one hears too often. Times, Sunday Times
The modern decor strikes a discordant note in this 17th century building.
Yet, to propose the possibility of adoption by such a couple strikes a discordant note.
The functional modernity of the computer struck a discordant note amid the elegant eighteenth-century furniture.
The contemporary dialogue for me struck a slightly discordant note.
For me, brunch is food anarchy, a gross and discordant ensemble of absolutely every dish you might ever conceivably eat for breakfast served with others normally reserved for lunch and dinner.
In April, after an intense and often discordant discussion between policy makers and the teacher training institutes, a new Decree on teacher training was voted in Parliament.
Their songs were too long, and were made up of loops created on the laptop utilising the most unmusical discordant sounds imaginable.
The main avenue made sense to him only as fragments of a discordant puzzle: mirrored glass and throbbing loudspeakers, a modishness that seemed pirated, misplaced; here, a flashy music store; there, the facade of a hamburger shop litigiously similar to an American franchise. Heaven Lake
It was a day of discordant notes, on and off the pitch. Times, Sunday Times
There were many strident and discordant passages, but in the context of the work as a whole they seemed entirely appropriate.
His fingers faltered on the piano keys, the discordant sound filling the room.
An advertisement for a cholesterol drug, for instance, could be considered misleading if it contains upbeat music and "discordant" images of patients benefiting from the medicine while the risk information is detailed. FDA Gives Advice on Divulging Risks
Another result concerning handedness of the progeny of discordant monozygotic twins suggests that lefties are one gene apart from righties.
The sound was awful, each song was a tuneless, discordant dirge.
Time and again when our two leads should be duetting it sounds more like their voices are clashing discordantly. Michael Giltz: Theater: NYMF #2 -- Friends, Hipsters & Pigeons
In fact it tends to generate some very discordant results.
As I looked at them ponderingly, a frog far in the back of the cave gave a discordant, echoing croak, which started the sulky and suspicious black boy who attended me into an abrupt exclamation of semi-fright; while a scrub fowl, scratching for its living overhead, dislodged a chip of granite which went clicking down the rocks. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
Yet, to propose the possibility of adoption by such a couple strikes a discordant note.
The study included pairs of twins both concordant and discordant with regard to ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease.
Prentice said Ottawa has to "calibrate" with Washington "otherwise we will have discordant energy and environment policies. Brandon Sun Online - Top Stories
To avoid this nefarious post-conflict infection trap, treatment programs must be paired with commensurate prevention efforts that address epidemic drivers, including concurrent multiple sexual partnerships, long-term discordant couples (where one partner is infected and the other uninfected), and early sexual debut. Peter Navario: Zimbabwe's Second Wave?
What is perhaps most fascinating about the coming election is that Shrum's trademark populism, which seemed so discordant just two years ago, will suddenly have renewed resonance.
I also COMPLETELY disagree that Obama's speech was "discordant". Matalin: With Afghan surge, Obama resembles George W. Bush
A brighter, poppier sound but the gymnastic and occasionally discordant vocal melody is anything but bland. The Sun
The country, which at present looks a Babel of discordant voices, is badly in need of a ‘light’ to get out of the darkness that has enveloped the nation.
We investigated the association between 48 coding and three non-coding single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from 35 inflammatory genes and the development of CAD, using a large discordant sibship collection (2699 individuals in 891 families). BioMed Central - Latest articles
More formally too there is evidence of how factors such as peer pressure or a discordant home can have long-term consequences that affect learning.
He stalked out of the apartment and walked to the nearest club, harshly bright and resounding with discordant noise in the still night air.
That would appear a discordant note on which to finish a career and why it seems inconceivable that he will not elect to fight on. Times, Sunday Times
I don't see anything in the documents that is discordant with what were the times, what was the situation and what were the people involved.
There was enough of mocking inconsistency at the bottom of this speech to make it rather discordant, though the manner was refined and the person well – favoured, and though the depreciatory part of it was so skilfully thrown off as to be very difficult for one not perfectly acquainted with the English language to understand, or, even understanding, to take offence at: so simple and dispassionate was its tone. Little Dorrit
A discordant and high-spirited version of an old tune rang out into the evening air.
As you follow it along the street you begin to hear the cheeps and trills of other birds launching into a discordant chorus.
Yet, to propose the possibility of adoption by such a couple strikes a discordant note.
Oh that an abrupt scaur, or a strip of flaming desert, or something salient and brilliant, would break in, however discordantly, upon this monotony of green! Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
The film pieces together unrelated images and discordant sounds to evoke provocative after-images that flow seamlessly into one another.
Something gave a loud discordant twang.
‘The use of 4x4 vehicles and trail motorcycles on unsealed routes is considered inappropriate and discordant.’
Deleuzean Kant would describe as a discordant harmony. Rhyming Sensation in 'Mont Blanc'
- Post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for high risk occupational and nonoccupational exposure (such as needlestick injuries among medical staff or rape) - Pre-exposure prophylaxis of high risk groups (for example, haemophiliacs) - HAART therapy to reduce sexual transmission among discordant couples (where one partner is HIV-positive and the other negative). ANC Daily News Briefing
Baraka's intentionally unmusical, discordant notes possess a unique and parodic music as he moves in his delivery of ‘It's Nation Time’ through speech, scream, and song.
Possibly the only discordant note struck, apart from the injuries, came from the officials. Times, Sunday Times
Yet in this way, we immediately understand the initial discordant keyboard riff.
It lies within the discordantly aligned Balygychan-Sugoi basin, which is underlain by volcanic rocks and carbonaceous molasses that cover the Verkhoyansk terrigenous rocks.
I had ample opportunity to depart from my prepared texts during five workshops to sound a note discordant from the previous keynoters.
The modern decor strikes a discordant note in this 17th century building.
By reading the afore-mentioned three columns horizontally and _onwards_, instead of vertically and _downwards_ "in the old trite vulgar way," it was contended that much mirth might observingly be distilled from the most unhopeful material, as "_blind Chance_" frequently brought about the oddest conjunctions, and not seldom compelled _sub juga aenea_ persons and things the most dissimilar and discordant. De Libris: Prose and Verse
We hypothesized that variations in the distribution of emphysema would be associated with functional differences and therefore account for discordant physiology.
Who can say why certain groups gel as they do and hit the listener with coherent loveliness, no matter how discordant the melody, while others laze in formlessness.
There will be many more discordant notes played before this game of musical chairs comes to an end. Times, Sunday Times
Getting a balance between the beauty of the instruments and the harsh discordant vocals seems difficult to achieve.
He shut his eyes and prepared himself for the discordant sounds.
The lenses are separated by locally discordant horizons of ferruginous, silicic or graphitic, strongly schistose sedimentary to volcanic rocks.
These lights are later accompanied by the discordant noises of machines losing contact with their source and breaking down.
Furthermore, all manner of wind instruments are used to create discordant noises that sound dangerously close to flatulence.
Emphasizing inherited components by studying concordant or discordant patient pairs with extreme phenotypes, we were able to detect associations of residual chloride conductance and of modifier genes with the CF phenotype.
Mam cursed at the five tabbies next door, all clumped together on the roof of the neighbor's garage, all discordant and orange. Four-leafed clover
The two most highly differentially expressed transcripts in smokers that give discordant results in the mouse models encode secreted proteins.
The boy tapped his laptop in time to the discordant music assaulting his ears.
In the early years her Cabinet was argumentative and discordant, a consequence not only of disagreements about economic strategy but also of her argumentative and directive style.
The functional modernity of the computer struck a discordant note amid the elegant eighteenth-century furniture.
Discordant declarations are inconceivable and, when they occur, devastating.
Its voice grows harsh, and discordant, sounding more like two people talking at once.
In plain leotards six dancers brought the discordant music and bare stage to life with their precise, agile movement and amazing grace on a centre stage trapeze.
The width of the gap has been uncertain, because different preparation methods have yielded discordant results.
Ive come to a shocking realisation that Im in a discordant relationship.
Objective To establish the xenograft acute vascular rejection(AVR) model of guinea pig to rat discordant cardiac xenografts by depletion of complement with purified Chinese cobra venom factor(CVF).
Perched in the fences, swinging on the gate, and hanging from the trees, were a score of young ebonies of both sexes, who, as we came in sight, set up a chorus of discordant shouts that made the woods ring. The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
Whereas before, it was a discordant cacophony of voices, now there is a clear message being communicated by one side to the other.
Scarcely had we sat down to supper when we were saluted with the same discordant, laughing cry which had startled us on the previous evening; but this time, knowing from whence it proceeded, we felt no alarm; though I believe that, had not Pullingo killed the gogobera, we should not have been convinced that a bird could have produced such sounds. Twice Lost
Meanwhile, the royal cachinnation was echoed out by a discordant and portentous laugh from behind the arras, like that of one who, little accustomed to give way to such emotions, feels himself at some particular impulse unable either to control or to modify his obstreperous mirth. The Fortunes of Nigel
With what a babel of discordant voices does it [medicine] celebrate its two thousand years of experience!
Even the moments of drama are fairly subtly presented, with little but an increase in odd sounds and discordant notes to herald them.
Flitting fitfully from discordant strings and hectic glockenspiels to lean oboe solos, Rota's masterpiece is an unstable symphony to the teeming metropolis.
And though that the principal end of such books be recreation, yet cannot I perceive how they can yield it, seeing they be forced with so many and so proportionless untruths; for the delight that the mind conceives must proceed from the beauty and conformity which it sees or contemplates in such things as the sight or imagination represents unto it, and all things that are deformed and discordant must produce the contrary effect. The Fourth Book. XX. Wherein Is Prosecuted the Manner of Don Quixote’s Enchantment, with Other Famous Occurrences
It examined the divergent and discordant forces at work in the UK at the time: Scottish, Welsh and English nationalism, as well as the Northern Ireland conflict.
Such is very nearly the euchology which man adopts; such are the discordant, absurd requests which he continually puts up to the Divinity, whose wisdom he extols; whose intelligence he holds forth to admiration; whose providence he eulogizes; whose equity he applauds; whilst he is hardly ever contented with the effects of the divine perfections. The System of Nature, Volume 2
It is hard, though, to shake the notion that all of these tiny tremors and discordant sounds do not harbor some degree of chaos ahead.
This singular ambition was realized in the remarkable building that now loomed before me, whose design was characterized by a discordant—if not utterly bizarre—juxtaposition of architectural embellishments, from medieval battlements, to Corinthian columns, to Oriental minarets, to the sort of elaborately scrolled buttresses characteristic of the Italian baroque—the entire, unparalleled combination giving to the whole an air of Arabian Nights fantasticalness, as though the building had sprung full-blown from the teeming reveries of an inordinately imaginative child. Nevermore
Rakael frowned as a harsh, discordant sound echoed in her ears.
The music sounded like the tape was being stretched producing appalling sounds and off-key, discordant, unpleasant noises.
Trehub, in Toronto, found that 6-to 9-month-old babies could tell whether a musical sequence was discordant or harmonious.
This record aims to unsettle and carries off its stilted and discordant sound without appearing laboured. The Sun
The sound was awful, each song was a tuneless, discordant dirge.
The guitars grow increasingly reckless and discordant to match the rising edge in Lee Ranaldo's voice before bursting into an anthemic refrain bordering on anarchy.
The details of their lives reach his ears in the discordant strains of barking seals, tubercular incurables, lowing cattle, bawling mourners, and want-to-be pundits.
If discordant drinking and drug behavior is causing marital stress, the nonuser in the partnership may change their behavior, Leonard said, and take up the alcohol or drug habit. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
The ESE-trending, sharply discordant and unstrained northern margins of the Mpuluzi batholith, in contrast, attest to the intrusion of the granites into the extensional sector of the dilational jog.
Discordant vocal and guitar overdubs add a welcomed ugliness to the track.
His agenda is discordant with ours.
Consequently, older children have more opportunities to find outside support systems that can help to buffer the deleterious effects of a discordant home.
Smith's obsession with an uncomfortable, discordant childhood compels her to replay the scenes of trauma over and over again, hoping each time for a different ending.
She had to play it all by ear, and this tune had some glaringly discordant harmonies.
Their songs were too long, and were made up of loops created on the laptop utilising the most unmusical discordant sounds imaginable.
Specifically, outcomes in both critically ill and noncritically ill patients were not influenced by whether they received concordant or discordant therapy based on pneumococcal in vitro susceptibility results.
In his analysis of the Critique of Judgment, Deleuze argues that for Kant, the "free accord of the faculties" is discordantly harmonious because it is already determined by reason's legislative role in the moral sphere. Rhyming Sensation in 'Mont Blanc'
All the discordant cases in the present study had only one grade difference with histological grading similar to earlier studies.
The diversified, conflicting and discordant notes of contemporary society will over time be blended to create a symphony of unity and peace.
Driven by the barest resources of rhythm and groove, amongst discordant guitar shards and electronic noise, the song brings the album's diesel start to a grind.
The contemporary dialogue for me struck a slightly discordant note.
Abruptly, he struck one of the guitar strings, making a discordant sound.
By frequent collision asperities were worn off, and a foundation was laid for the establishment of a nation, out of discordant materials.
There wasn't a single false second or discordant note. The Sun
Is it possible you see the controversy your films always generate and the wildly discordant judgments as a higher compliment to your work than universal praise would be?
The margins are straight, with discordant injection veins, and grade into a marginal cataclasite zone adjacent to the mylonite.
Here are some other words that start with dis to describe this movie… discordant, discrepant, disharmonic, disharmonious and dissonant. Review: Children Of Men (reasonably spoiler-free)
Together, her many voices create for the reader a symphony, discordant thought not cacophonous, of her being.
It is time to put away the bunting and add a few discordant notes to the jubilee celebrations. Times, Sunday Times
Ryan had a discordant memory of the "Polack" jokes so popular when he'd been in high school, but managed not to relate any to the assembled throng. The Bear and the Dragon
The contemporary dialogue for me struck a slightly discordant note.

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