Sentences with phrase «into discordant»

While it can occasionally turn into a discordant mess, Bad Hotel will still surprise you (in a good way!)

Not exact matches

No scheme of analysis could account for all gradations of relative scale, so I have begun with a simple division into contrasts of relative parity or disparity and contrasts that are discordant or concordant.

«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.»

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.

Into this evolution enter all the expansive, retrogressive, and discordant qualities which account for the perennial struggle present in the religious response to life.

Alone on the hill, with the dark sky and the stars above and the discordant world below, the narrator sinks more deeply into a contemplative state and, much like Stapledon's description of the Whiteheadian explorer, proceeds on a panoramic exploration, leaving his mountain top in a flight of imagination while staring at the stars.

The string of discordant communities along the Atlantic coast has grown into a mighty people, joined in a union which the earthquake of civil war only served to compact and consolidate.

The discordant multiplicity of free creations of actualities in the temporal world are brought into complete adjustment in the harmony of God's own actualization.

But a perspective that takes the whole painting into account may be able to unify these discordant particulars into a wider and more intense harmony of contrasts.

The novelist's purpose is to avoid bath triviality and discord by weaving a relevant variety of detail into an over-all harmony that gives pattern and significance to otherwise mutually discordant incidentals.

But, like a song whose discordant chords flow into a harmonious chorus, the flavors united, almost by magic.

Ridaura et al. (1241214; see the Perspective by Walker and Parkhill) obtained uncultured fecal microbiota from twin pairs discordant for body mass and transplanted them into adult germ - free mice.

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.

To test how important the five regions are, the team divided the discordant twin pairs into two groups.

«We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware.»

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).

Only the discordant music and some intentionally choppy editing connects the softer Under The Skin scenes to the sojourns into other dimensions.

Other discordant portrayals include Carey's character jumping into bed on a first date, a fistfight, a shooting, a few profanities and a sexual expletive.

Given its discordant nature, it takes a bit to settle into the movie's groove.

Into this slightly discordant group, with their own Captain directionless, a challenge is presented — to enter an uncharted nebula and rescue a downed Federation crew.

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.»

If would - be reformers can find ways to engage with discordant voices, they just might have a shot at keeping today's big victories from turning into tomorrow's Pyrrhic ones.

«The culmination of 17 years of work, the Kindle Fire is the missing piece of the company's vast corporate puzzle, bringing into harmony nearly every discordant service the company has built since CEO Jeff Bezos first set up shop in his garage in 1994.»

Michael Kimmelman writes in the first paragraph of his New York Times review: «It has brought various New York critics of usually discordant opinions into rare harmony: at the least, they dislike it.

Humorous, irreverent, and discordant, these installations include a number of handpainted signs that purport to instil some order into the situation, but often offer little clarity.

Divided into two sequential exhibitions, the component parts respectively focused upon the themes of the harmonious RIFF, and the discordant RIFT.

Auerbach interweaves discordant positions such as disorder and order, readability and abstraction, permeability and solidity — phenomena that are usually viewed as incompatible — into unified surfaces and volumes.

My pleasure is housed in these moments of recognition when discordant parts produce a reconcilable whole, despite the fact that Manet's attentive toiling has forced the work into a state of disassembly.

Rosenquist's specialty is arranging fragmented, juxtaposed images into overlapping layers, and putting them on canvases to create a discordant visual narrative.