discordances

The holistic result is a nicely technical, sophisticated look without the discordances of shiny stuff that made the previous design hard to take seriously.

Acura TL: A Good Grille and a Better Car Behind It Dan Neil 2011

What if it turned out that Stravinsky wrote the Rite of Spring (which contains some highly unusual harmonies and discordances) while using it?

You Like-a the Juice? The Juice is Good? 2007

If discordances in monozygotic twins for psychosis imply that environmental differences are involved, the discordance may be caused by epigenetic differences.

Dan Agin: More Than Genes IV: Epigenetics, the Womb, and Mental Illness 2009

In contrast, the high discordances in some monozygotic twins, particularly for schizophrenia, are telling us something about origins -- that something is happening during fetal development that can trump genome identity.

Dan Agin: More Than Genes IV: Epigenetics, the Womb, and Mental Illness 2009

That solution was what he called a metanomical society, a planetary society in which discordances could be peacefully accommodated in creative tension.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Cristaudo, Wayne 2008

I, a thousand-fold more insignificant than he, may I not have discordances of character, and make friendship a burden heavy indeed to bear?

Modeste Mignon 2007

In reality, the Electoral College divide grows out of discordances over the fundamentals of social life: marriage and children.

The Dirt Gap Steve Sailer 2005

The sound of so many voices united by the distance into one harmony, and freed from those harsh discordances which jar the ear when heard more near, combining with the murmuring brook, and the wind which sung among the old firs, affected me with a sense of sublimity.

Rob Roy 2005

He appeared to be a scribe of its events and social discordances.

NOVELS-NOVELS 2003

In reality, the Electoral College divide grows out of discordances over the fundamentals of social life: marriage and children.

Archive 2005-01-16 Steve Sailer 2005