Sentences with phrase «discordant notes»

While the story grows confusing at times, the only discordant notes are a couple of narratives that focus on fringe characters who appear to exist only to move the story along.

The only discordant notes were sounded, literally, by the squeaks and creaks coming from various locations, and by the ill - fitting dash pad.

Despite the fact that now Mae's working at a place where she's happy, for a company that seems to be doing work genuinely beneficial to humanity, discordant notes of disquiet are disturbing her bliss.

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

The harmonious unity of Ermanno Olmi's film, despite one or two discordant notes, stems largely from the director's circumspect approach to all its elements.

The model suggests that pleasant harmonies cause neurons to fire in regular patterns whereas discordant notes stimulate messier neuron activity.

We like Charles Barron and appreciate his willingness to sound discordant notes.

Pulayas, squeezed at the bottom of the most repressive socio - religious structures known to man, were not incapable of striking discordant notes while eating the humble pie.

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.

Though he remained largely unchallenged, Lee's combative character began to strike an increasingly discordant note among a growing number of Singaporeans.

There's only one way to restore harmony — by making that discordant note the first note in a brand new melody, maybe now in a minor key rather than a major, but beautiful nevertheless.

There is one discordant note: he ran the New York City Marathon in a slow (for him) 3 hours and 27 minutes.

But the discordant note was struck because of the contrast between her contrition and her position.

For all the unity themes Cuomo had sought this week, the de Blasio snafu was a discordant note.

So why did it strike a slightly discordant note?

The only discordant note in the photo arises from the contrast between your attire and the lush look of green behind you.

McKenzie doesn't stoop to deliver a pat happy ending, and even the moderately upbeat final scene features an oddly discordant note in the score that suggests not all is well.

Tully strikes a slightly discordant note, jarring against the film's otherwise naturalistic tone.

But in the fall of 1972, the steady rhythm of his schedule hits a discordant note when a new student arrives.

But that is absolutely the only discordant note in the predictably lush interior, where the attention to finish detail borders on obsessive.

The only discordant note in this entire procedure, I found, was that the engine - transmission combination did not always run smoothly at lower speeds, and it sometimes caused the car to shudder momentarily when being brought to a quick stop.

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.

Even more surprising is the fact that the current crop of Folio 100s that were put on sale turned out to be dismal in performance and looks which is probably why it has hit a discordant note with buyers.

Striking a slightly discordant note are Dole's final ads featuring O'Keeffe's images.

While discussions of Nauman's video works from this period have focused on issues of performativity, endurance, and the body, Ligon was interested in how Nauman's discordant note can be heard as a soundtrack to the war in Vietnam or the brutal violence faced by civil rights workers.

About the only discordant note in the design is the use of Polyisocyanurate insulation.

Not exact matches

The strong rise of the gold price amidst liberal doses of QE post-2008 through 2011 would have been a note discordant with an otherwise happy fable.

Thus, because the ultimate objective, the totality to which my nature is attuned has been made manifest to me, the powers of my being begin spontaneously to vibrate in accord with a single note of incredible richness wherein I can distinguish the most discordant tendencies effortlessly resolved: the excitement of action and the delight of passivity: the joy of possessing and the thrill of reaching out beyond what one possesses; the pride in growing and the happiness of being lost in what is greater than oneself.

Musically, the exciting on - the - rise composer duo of Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans («Martha Marcy May Marlene,» «Simon Killer «-RRB- bring an atonal A-game of discordant cellos and oblique half notes that would make Jonny Greenwood proud, and keeps the movie tilted on its discomfiting axis.

His take on the complications in Dade's life is sophisticated and thoughtful, especially on the ambiguities of that «relationship» with Pablo, while his limning of the growing friendship with Alex is deeply satisfying, never striking a discordant emotional note.

It was a technical endeavour; they explored the negative space between notes, they manipulated song elements to discordant and disorientating effect.

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 machine.

Put in dialogue with one another, the juxtaposition may at first seem discordant yet given time, one notes their marked similarities.