| There is dissonance, beautiful dissonance, mixed with more diatonic harmony. |
| I really like watching his HK films with that dissonance in mind, looking for the different ways Chinese culture expects stories to be told. |
| Grimaud's ability to evoke both sensitive tonal shadings and clangorous dissonance made this movement an overwhelming experience. |
| The idiom is essentially tonal though dissonance, bitonality, and, occasionally, polytonality are liberally used. |
| There's cognitive dissonance between our professed support for meritocracy and our behaviour when our own children are involved. |
| This study used mild emotional stimuli, those associated with people's reactions to musical consonance versus dissonance. |
