English example sentences with "dissonance"

Her conflicting desires to consume chocolate and to lose weight resulted in her experiencing cognitive dissonance.
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This piece makes heavy use of dissonance and syncopation.
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The dissonance in this piece has caused many critics to label it a "wrong note sonata".
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"Frank, I think humans are not central in this universe; therefore, God would not be human-like." "Don, your scientific and religious notions have no dissonance, then."
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It is the 29th of November of 2012. Bratislav's reality view is crowded. It is teeming with lifeforms in space and here. Probably, it is reflective of a lonely trait. My reality view since childhood is that since the microcosm, my local neighbourhood, is like a desert, where life and especially intelligent life are rare and precious, then the macrocosm, comprising the worlds "out there," is also desolate. My reality view has no microcosm-macrocosm dissonance. Bratislav's reality view requires review of epistemology, the study of the nature of knowledge. Who says it? From where does it come?
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I've never seen someone exhibit cognitive dissonance on the scale that Tom does where COVID is concerned. It genuinely merits professional study and investigation. Fascinating stuff.
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As we talked, I realized that the source of my malaise was a kind of cognitive dissonance, where I could not reconcile the values and ways of life that I had come to embrace during my time away with the ones that seemed so opposed and unchanging at home.
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For the record, I see zero issue with still watching and enjoying tennis and also being able to deride players for being the mugs they are. There’s no dissonance in my mind about it. They are elite professional athletes, but if all we were allowed to do is fawn in awe at how good they are, discourse would be incredibly boring.
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