discordant

• “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.”

  The Huffington Post: Peter Navario: Zimbabwe's Second Wave?

• “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.”

  Simon & Schuster: Nevermore

• “Deleuzean Kant would describe as a discordant harmony.”

  Rhyming Sensation in 'Mont Blanc'

• “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 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

• “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.”

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• “I also COMPLETELY disagree that Obama's speech was "discordant".”

  Matalin: With Afghan surge, Obama resembles George W. Bush

• “Meanwhile, Peach's poo-colored top is "discordant" with her polka dot skirt”

  The Huffington Post: Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 2 Recap: Size Matters

• “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.”

  The Wall Street Journal: FDA Gives Advice on Divulging Risks

• “[M] any [are] in disguises and masks; and all have some kind of discordant and noisy music, such as old kettles, and shovels, and tongs ....”

  The WELL: Sugaree

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