Sentences with phrase «as discordant»

As is her wont, Holofcener assembles a cast of brilliant, slightly under - the - radar actors who come together believably as a discordant family unit.

Imagine sitting in a darkened auditorium, nervously munching on popcorn as discordant notes play.

All six genes could be validated, and showed significant expression differences between unrelated patients with diabetes and nondiabetic subjects in the same direction as the discordant twins (Fig. 1B and D).

Not exact matches

When the U.S. tone strikes a discordant note however, there are opportunities to look to Canada and Mexico as platforms for North American trade, in the event the U.S. pulls out of NAFTA and decides to go it alone.

The mistakes may be only apparent and with a more sophisticated view may be seen as relatively concordant instead; that is why the identification of discordant contrasts is a useful procedure.

«Desiring, then, that all things should be good and, so far as might be, nothing imperfect, the god [Demiurge] took over all that is visible — not at rest, but in discordant and unordered motion — and brought it from disorder into order.»

As you enter this sacred library you discover that like all libraries, it contains various, sometimes harmonious, sometimes discordant and sometimes even contradictory, voices.

The Timaeus states: «there were no days and nights, months and years [i.e., there were no time measurements] before the Heaven came into being» (37E); before the Heaven came into being, the contents of the Receptacle were in» discordant and unordered motion» (30A); nonetheless, «the different kinds [i.e., earth, water, air, and fire] came to have different regions, even before the ordered whole consisting of them came to be» (53A).7 Of course, the terms «before,» «motion,» and «came to have» could be construed as metaphors.

Despite their differences, none of the undergraduates seemed interested in challenging, supporting, or even mentioning Houellebecq's characterization of Islam as fundamentally discordant with French culture.

If the basic situation of human life is set originally in complexity, any realization of harmony will be a precarious venture along the razor's edge between inclusion of discordant data as effective contrasts and their dismissal as incompatible values.

The Guardian: Ding dang... Notre Dame moves to scrap out - of - tune bells Their names sound pretty enough — Angélique - Françoise, Antoinette - Charlotte, Hyacinthe - Jeanne and Denise - David — but the noise they make together has been described as «discordant» and enough to drive Quasimodo deaf all over again.

But critics showed that discordant data alone have seldom been taken to falisfy an accepted theory in the absence of an alternative theory; instead, auxiliary assumptions have been modified, or the discrepancies have been set aside as anomalies.

Yet, as Whitehead (1920, p. 17) observed as early as in 1920, the variety of metrically discordant temporal series is entirely compatible with one single underlying «creative advance of nature,» or, in less poetic words, with universal becoming.

But, as Bergson observed, the relativistic universe does not exclude the simultaneity of intervals, i.e., contemporaneity of temporal series, even if they are metrically discordant.

Suppose that for some reason the chemical doctrine had been highly prized throughout some district as the foundation of its social order — would it have been wise, would it have been candid, would it have been moral, to forbid the disclosure of the fact that the experiments produced discordant results?

The difficulty as to discordant time - systems is partly solved by distinguishing between what I call the creative advance of nature, which is not properly serial at all, and any one time - series.

Along the razor's edge between inclusion of discordant elements as effective contrasts and their dismissal as incompatible ingredients, each organic form of life seeks a particular equilibrium.

When we have deduced what we deduce by our reason and from study of visible nature, and then read what we read in His inspired word, and find the two apparently discordant, this is the feeling I think we ought to have on our minds» not an impatience to do what is beyond our powers, to weigh evidence, sum up, balance, decide, and reconcile, to arbitrate between the two voices of God» but a sense of the utter nothingness of worms such as we are; of our plain and absolute incapacity to contemplate things as they really are; a perception of our emptiness, before the great Vision of God....

is as unsettling as it is exciting, discordant piano crashed over propulsive drums and a grumbling bass line.

The matter of discordant tunes on its use from election tribunals is disturbing as expressed by the CJN.

There have been discordant tunes over the fate of the girls as the police command in the state also said there were no evidence to say any girls was missing.

And there was the discordant thud last Wednesday night, when Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Democrat, and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican, declared they were sending their members home without doing one of the few things that actually came with a deadline: extending mayoral control for New York City's schools, a system that both houses and parties view as a vast improvement over the old system of board control.

With each singing in discordant tone, proving to be more Nigerian than the other while promoting tribal loyalties as against common sense of nationhood.

Moreover, in the case of identical twins who are discordant for schizophrenia, the child of the healthy twin is as likely to be schizophrenic as the child of the schizophrenic twin.

We transplanted fecal microbiota from adult female twin pairs discordant for obesity into germ - free mice fed low - fat mouse chow, as well as diets representing different levels of saturated fat and fruit and vegetable consumption typical of the U.S. diet.

The data come from HIV discordant couples enrolled in ZEHRP as part of IAVI's Protocol C epidemiological study, supported by USAID.

«The discordant twin design minimizes a number of potentially confounding factors that may explain the association between childhood verbal ability and subsequent alcohol use by «controlling» for differences on variables [such as] socioeconomic differences or family factors that, if excluded, could cloud the interpretation of findings.»

These genes were selected based on the following criteria: they exhibit differential expression in the discordant twins (q < 0.15; Fig. 3A and C), as well as differential methylation in both the discordant twins (P < 0.05; Fig. 3B and D) and case - control cohort 2 (q < 0.15; Fig. 3B and D).

Unsupervised clustering proposed a large genetic contribution to the methylation variability as the affected twin from the pair discordant for T2D was epigenetically «closer» to his / her unaffected co-twin than to the other diabetic twins.

But Spector argues that EpiTwin has already made valuable contributions — for example, through a study of 15 twin pairs discordant for breast cancer that pointed toward hypermethylation of the DOK7 gene, which he believes could one day be used as a biomarker to help identify women at risk for breast cancer years in advance.

«These results, and in particular those regarding discordant siblings, strongly suggest that the association between cesarean delivery and childhood obesity is real, rather than an issue of inadequate control for shared causes as we and others had proposed,» he said.

Our evolutionarily discordant dietary environment has been linked to conditions as diverse as heart disease, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), and schizophrenia.2, 3 Often, the brain is seen as a space unto itself, as though the blood - brain barrier were an impenetrable border that spares the brain the deleterious effects the rest of the body suffers as a result of a physiologically incongruous diet.

This was later recognized to be an oversimplification, as this paradigm not only failed to elucidate the role of Th17 cells, but it was also discordant with data demonstrating that autoimmune diseases do not always fall into these neat categorical distinctions (14).

This is a just plain bad story, peculiar and discordant to the extent it's there at all, but also so flimsy and uninspired as almost to incite contempt, not just disapproval.

Jason Sudeikis shows up as a perverted hit man, and he does a fine job of being creepy, but the character itself is discordant and strains at the boundaries of the comedy.

Anderson's sense of music as an instrument to create mood is very evident here, perhaps a little too much, as he blends in beautiful music when Barry is feeling love or happiness, and discordant cacophony when his mind is perplexed with frustration, fear or anxiety.

She's fine, but the character is so negative and undermining, even as the film seems to be on her side, and something about that feels discordant.

As stylistically discordant as these nine segments are, they somehow form a satisfactory, unified whole through the marriage of words and imageAs stylistically discordant as these nine segments are, they somehow form a satisfactory, unified whole through the marriage of words and imageas these nine segments are, they somehow form a satisfactory, unified whole through the marriage of words and images.

Yet there's something just off about the movie, something discordant or out of balance, and the biggest evidence of this is that the funniest stuff doesn't grow naturally from the story or characters, but feels appended, thrown on as afterthought, like a condiment, to add a little flavor.

Soon that show tune merges with score to create a cacophony of discordant sound, fitting for what The A.V. Club's A.A. Dowd described as «a portrait of a famous dreamlife curdling into a public nightmare.»

The accompanying risk is balkanization: discordant approaches to civic education as one school emphasizes Athenian values while another stresses those of Sparta.

Being bullied as an environmentally mediated contributing factor to children's internalizing problems: a study of twins discordant for victimization.

However, while that may be sweet music to your ears, what strikes a slightly discordant note is that only Taiwan will be blessed with the e-reader initially and it's not known when the rest of the world will be as fortunate.

As the harmonious percussion of gears and steam - powered whistles reach what should be the crescendo of engineering - melody the Gnomish mechanical symphony sputters with a discordant CLANG!

True artists will always be free in their submission only to one cause - not fame or celebrity, not a career, not pieces of paper from universities, but to that of whether that colour can possibly be right, whether in saturation it is discordant with the image intended, whether a composite form is distractingly discordant to the whole, (as well exemplified in the Angel of the North), not the political agenda of Liberalism in all things - to do as one likes privately or publicly so call it art «because I say it is», or to be «relevant» to a «handout dogma» by revered establishment figures of any description: nothing, as Sickert put it, that follows a «finicky programme of social pieties», and again as he says, quite rightly, defining art as «what I do» - in essence a rigid and confining agenda of a politicised mind.

Using a comic - strip technique and harsh discordant colors, his paintings comment on such social topics as the homeless and the Ku Klux Klan.

Performing artist Okwui Okpokwasili danced to the discordant soundtrack as the musicians were live streamed to an audience at the Magazine Restaurant at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery.

The Whitney will feature the collective's 2016 video installation, «A Very Long Line,» in which the camera rapidly moves laterally along the border to a discordant soundtrack, as if from the perspective of a passenger in a car.

As it spins, it shoots off arrays of notes that are a touch discordant but still sensical, as if a trained musician is strumming or plucking at an instrument, trying to invent or conjure a new scale — a ghost in the machinAs it spins, it shoots off arrays of notes that are a touch discordant but still sensical, as if a trained musician is strumming or plucking at an instrument, trying to invent or conjure a new scale — a ghost in the machinas if a trained musician is strumming or plucking at an instrument, trying to invent or conjure a new scale — a ghost in the machine.

Dodge pieces together discordant elements as if he were stitching together a crazy quilt.