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Dissonant Democracy: Protest, Brutality and Healing at the RNC yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Dissonant Democracy: Protest, Brutality and Healing at the RNC'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: In a game of cat and mouse, activists and police forces chase each other across the playing field of a city, media, and minds of locals in the Twin Cities.
Dissonant Democracy: Protest, Brutality and Healing at the RNC 2008
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Fair, a Harmonious and a Dissonant, as really and truly here, as in any musical Numbers, or in the outward Forms or Representations of sensible Things.
18th Century British Aesthetics Shelley, James 2006
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"Dissonant mess," said Spirda, his voice rising above the dull clop of hoofs.
The Soprano Sorceress Modesitt, L. E. 1997
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Dissonant words of magic flew from Morhion's tongue.
Curse of the Shadowmage Anthony, Mark, 1966- 1995
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Dissonant sites of theatres ([Greek: katêchountes]), 153.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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Dissonant notes occasionally disturbed the chorus of adulation.
NYT > Home Page By WILLIAM GRIMES 2011
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One of Kelley's designs, featuring a yarn doll, graces the cover of In a 1996 review of the Hirshhorn exhibition "Distemper: Dissonant Themes in the Art of the 1990s," former Washington Post critic Joyce Jones evaluated Kelley's art: That Mike Kelley also addresses memory, or rather a repression of it, isn't immediately apparent in the bright flux of jack-o'-lanterns, Santas and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers that populate his paintings.
Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis Maura Judkis 2012
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The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington ("Distemper: Dissonant Themes in the Art of the 1990s," 1996), the Museum of Modern Art in New York ("On the Edge: Contemporary Art from the Werner and Elaine Dannheisser Collection," 1997-1998) and many more all displayed one specimen.
NYT > Global Home By SOUREN MELIKIAN 2011
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Dissonant notes occasionally disturbed the chorus of adulation.
NYT > Home Page By WILLIAM GRIMES 2011
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Dissonant stance exemplifies why Angle is trailing (112 comments)
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