dissonant

How To Use dissonant In A Sentence

• Like Gideon, her mother only existed in scraps of moments, in colors and sound, all disconnected and dissonant.
• The full force of the chromatic harmony was thrilling, as in such details as the cellos' dissonant flattened 6th just before the final cadence.
• It is as this dissonant crescendo of drama builds that the novel's cleverness reveals itself.
• They evoke dissonant narratives of colonial history.
• Latin verb gustare, "to taste;" but Medlar pleaded custom in behalf of C, observing, that, by the Doctor's rule, we ought to change pudding into budding, because it is derived from the French word boudin; and in that case why not retain the original orthography and pronunciation of all the foreign words we have adopted, by which means our language would become a dissonant jargon without standard or propriety? The Adventures of Roderick Random
• I just don't see what is so dissonant about that.
• Why are there all these dissonant voices giving speeches, some of them conspicuous?
• The "mystery" is in just how they combine diaphonic singing and dissonant harmonies to produce a breathtaking, otherworldly sound somewhere between the Muslim call to prayer and the Beach Boys. Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares – review
• Julius Drake plays his part with dedication and conviction, particularly in the dissonant sections where Ives' demands are extremely taxing.
• When Ellel spoke of Hunagor and Werra dying, her voice pealed like dissonant bells, an enjoyment Qualary perceived but did not question. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS